Ariadne: The Brilliant Feminist Debut that Everyone is Talking About

Why mortals bloomed like flowers and crumbled to nothing? Why their absence left a gnawing ache, a hollow void that could never be filled? And how everything they once were, that spark within them, could be extinguished so completely yet the world did not collapse under the weight of so much pain and grief.’

xenia?’

indignities

portentousness

Was this my punishment? To live the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?

I took that story with me in the coming days and turned it over, like the stone in a ripe peach: the sudden, unexpected hard shock in the centre of everything.

eked

she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.

I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.’