The Curious Waitress: Madrid

Leslie Ann Brennemann gets to live the life of luxury, but it's a bubble inside a storm of her mother's past that is about to come manifest for both of them. She turns into something more important in the eyes of her mother Dory. Leslie transforms into a beautiful beacon of every weakness and mistake she had ever made, an effigy that burns out of control, annihilated in a single blinding flash.

My name is Leslie Ann Brennemann, I am a waitress at the Hyannis Hotel and Restaurant in Hyannis Nebraska, although that status may be in flux. It's hard for me to fathom the changes that I have gone through this last year, but I wear it like the skin of a grizzly bear I killed with a sharpened number two pencil. Being influential and traveling the world, having people adore me that I have never even met, and making decisions that drive the economy is pretty amazing, I'm not gonna lie.

Everything changes when you turn twenty one. I used to be scared to leave the ranch, now I never want to go back. I ride around in limos all day and I have every comic book ever created. As I write this my heart races with adrenalin and I cannot express fully how alive I feel. I am going to become a world traveler, I am going to eat food from other countries, other races and religions, and I am not talking about the potato salad with raisins in it from the Presbyterian Church down the street.

I will be in Italy, I will eat macaroni. In Spain I will eat tacos. I plan to buy a house on a cliff somewhere where people live on cliffs, and I plan on swimming in a pool that hangs out over the edge and has a glass bottom. I plan on eating everything out on the terrace. This is going to be the greatest year of my life. It doesn't get much better than this...