Sublime

She was only doing it because as much as she couldn’t forgive herself for the day of the bees, she couldn’t forgive Graham, either. He’d made her different.

When she’d been retracing the walk she’d taken with him on that promise-filled dawn, she had been struck by how the exact same route could look and feel so different. One minute, Sam was there, the game was completed, and the world was filled with potential. Twelve hours later, Sam was gone, the game was far from her thoughts, and the world was gri

Hannah, her small heart awash in pity, reaches up to take her hand, but her mother doesn’t notice. In a moment Hannah contents herself by clasping her own fingers behind her back.

They kept careful the way they used to keep Shabbat.