Summary

The short story “The Skirt” by Zoe Lambert follows a morning in the life of Bethany, a paralyzed former comedian living in Manchester, England. It focuses on the ways she deals with her disability and interacts with her family and other people.

The story starts in Bethany’s home, with the preparations for a shopping trip she is supposed to take with her aunt Joan and neighbor Jude. Bethany’s mother prepares a skirt and cardigan for her daughter to wear and offers her a healthy breakfast, accompanied by several pills. While trying without much success to eat her breakfast, Bethany starts to remember the day she got ill, and others’ reactions to this event.

Once her aunt Joan arrives, impatient to go shopping, Bethany retreats to her room, cuts the skirt her mother dressed her in, and chooses a pair of jeans instead, although it is more difficult to put them on because of her physical condition. Joan thinks Bethany is in a bad mood because, as she sa...

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