Pretty Little Dead Girls
“ . . . Shall you? Oh my.”
“Yes. I wish to give my daughter a rather conflicting name, you see, and I felt that being called after a poisonous flower would do just that. First I thought of Elephant Ear, but you can imagine how that would be when she hits twelve or so—”
“Yes, yes, I see your point,” the nurse would whisper ever so faintly.
“And there are so many other names to choose from, really. Gardenia and Foxglove. False Hellebore is just right out, you see, but Baneberry . . . ”
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