Written from a female perspective. A young woman returns home from College to find that after the death of her father, her mother has married his business partner. Unfortunately he has taken a very dominant view of his position in the family.
Eddie and his mother enjoy their special relationship, though she allows his other trysts without jealousy. Approached by one of Eddie's teachers, who revealed she, too, has been in a relationship with a now absent son, Eddie's mother agrees to share.
Alice Moody wants to take over taking care of her daddy from the moment her mom runs off. Her dad makes her wait until she is fourteen to do the most important "taking care of a husband" job. Alice thinks she has everything she ever wanted when her father marries her. Sometimes things don't work out the way you expect.
Short story about a mother who catches her son masturbating to MILF porn and subsequently peeping on his older sister while she enjoys a little time sitting on their wobbly washing machine.
Read Mom's secret diary as she catalogs every detail as she remembers it.