My Mother-in-Law Killed My Parents

Now I serve her every day.

They say Sophea has the best luck of any orphan — married into the richest house in the district, with a husband who has worked across the border for two years. Before dawn she carries water. She cooks for ten. She eats last, alone, in the kitchen. At night she asks her parents' photograph why they left her to this. She does not know her mother-in-law asks the same photograph for forgiveness.