Sublime

Nestled inside was a ring of grey metal set with a bluish-purple gem, startling in its brilliancy.

finding the untouched core of herself,

sinewy

ameliorated.

incandescent.

Augean

obdurate.

indelible.

The younger lawyer was named Marcus, he was from Shaker Heights, he had attended Penn, where he had majored in philosophy and lettered in rowing. After a stint working in a rural Mississippi town with Teach for America, he had gone on to Stanford Law School. He had a lovely wife of Korean ancestry and a six-month-old baby and was just days away fro