June, the Solitary Hero ~ 5

Now, before the next batch of Words for Wednesday will go public tomorrow, I sat down and used them. I continued my story of June, the Solitary Hero from
June, the Solitary Hero  ~  Part 1
June, the Solitary Hero  ~  Part 2
June, the Solitary Hero  ~  Part 3
June, the Solitary Hero  ~  Part 4
and as I often do, I used the words in the order they were given. The Words were:
Klutz 
Cream cheese 
Twilight/gloaming 
Buzzing 
Trouble 
Dominoes

June had seldom felt more like a klutz. No matter how much she studied, she could not get the hang of the Morse code. Suddenly she remembered the verses she had been taught as a girl scout:
A is for apple, brown is the bough   ·-
B is a bear with three cubs in tow   -···
C is two pins that fell where they stood   -·-·
D is a dagger with two drops of blood  -··
... and so on all the way to Z. The verses were not very good, but easy to remember, and she recited them while cleaning, picking, baking, shining, polishing and whatever else she did that day.

The mail-man arrived, bringing more bills for the house, and she treated him to a home-made apple-and-blackberry pie served with a vanilla cream cheese sauce. He preferred tea to coffee, and June was happy to comply, as this would have been her choice as well. They talked of the former owners, nothing very deep, but the mail-man confirmed that the wife, Anne, had indeed been tiny and fragile and never born them any children, and that Charles had lost the will to live after her death, and quickly descended into senility.

After the mail-man had left, June sat for a while in the garden, and soon the soft, late September twilight descended. She recalled that her granny had called it gloaming. She had found it a depressing word as a child, akin to gloomy, whereas twilight had an elfin sound to it. She liked the sound of that word. Granny had died many years ago, but June still missed her. She was the only person in the family who had understood her liking for languages and the arts in a family of technicians and accountants. She had married a man Granny did not like, and set the while family buzzing with outrage. He had been a movie star in his teens, starring in X-rated movies. When June met him, he had already stopped acting and was the lead singer in a heavy metal band. They had had endless trouble with his reputation and tattoos. Landlords did not want to rent them even the tiniest flat. As if his money was somehow worth less than other peoples'. In the end they had found a shabby flat and there they had lived happily with their two kids until that dreadful day when her whole life fell over like dominoes in a row.