Sublime

‘Christabel LaMotte. Daughter of Isidore, the mythographer. Last Things. Tales Told in November. An epic called The Fairy Melusina. Very bizarre. Do you know about Melusina? She was a fairy who married a mortal to

Peter Jacobsen, whose 1880 novel, Niels Lyhne,

ether

Laura’s was Anne Sexton, and Naomi’s was Sylvia Plath.

quiescence,

Clemetine Wembley, Certified Medium and Psychic.

From the very start, Jacaranda was the big one with the large head who, till she was three, had to be swathed in pink for people not to say, “My, what a nice healthy boy you’ve got there . . .” April was a girl, a girlish girl with curly brown curls and a rosy-cheeked smile, delicate bone structure, and a small head. Neither Jacaranda nor April