Sublime

ineradicable

those hidden bruises suggested something more – an end to the stifling ordinariness of existence.

oxblood

Maggie began to show her the way in which the world was webbed; how nothing lived in isolation.

pinioned

Sapphists

inchoately

while the humble elder had risen to a high administrative position, the jaded elder, due to her uncompromising character, had been passed over for promotions and slowly forced from a role of importance, and even from the public eye, into a back office with a broken heater.