Story Contest

Eve posted a link to a contest that Jason is hosting, so I decided to give it a crack. The limit is 250 words, which is a surprisingly short amount of time to make a point. So here is my entry to the contest, which literally did not have the punch that I would have liked. I had a whole dialog planned where the kid gives the step-mother a whole lotta what for, but I ran out of words. Long time readers will recognize the theme. Here it is:

Update see previous post.