Sublime

when I came home and saw what the bear had done.

The ten-year-old had been the unexpected jewel of a loveless marriage, the raison d’être of the then-young man’s life and the inspiration for all he hoped to do in the world. From rocky soil in which opposites had first been attracted and then repelled into cold civility, this flower of promise had bloomed. She dethroned all of Theo’s previous

On the heels of deathcall there’s a great flood, biblical in its scope and timing.

In the long nights when there was little to do father had time to think. That was his undoing.

actuarial tables.