Sublime

Adina realizes friendships are reincarnations.

inconvenient yearning.

Easily, he slept; and as he slept, the woman in the photograph took her arm from the pastor’s waist, and crossed the parched lawn towards the camera. Her black skirts, thickly beaded at the hem, obscured the view of Bethesda; then her fine and muddied boots came over the frame, and were first set squarely on the table, then one by one on the floor:

“She and her sister are meeting with the countess.” “Ah, what a magnificent old dragon,” St. Vincent mused, drawing Lillian through the doorway.

she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.

—Charlotte Clingstone presented a kind of ideal. She was bohemian but accomplished. Worldly but rooted.

She changed into an expensive T-shirt Simon had bought for her, then sat around, waiting, like the end of every day was a first date.

If she could stay in orbit for the rest of her life all would be well. It’s

malady