Games and Rituals: Stories

Why is she so eager to be free of someone so gentle and kind? Is it fair to dislike someone solely because he reminds you of an earlier, awkward stage of your life? Probably not. But nobody ever said life was fair.

Mia felt suddenly sure that she and her mother and Gordey were not replicas of one another, doomed to repeat the same mistakes. They were just rotating through the roles of parent and child, child and parent, taking turns at worrying and causing worry, at needing care and giving it. They would continue to do that for the rest of their lives, shinin