Sublime

Maybe Ma was never coming home.

Mostly, Sloane could not tell Jenny her own pain, because it was smaller than Jenny’s pain, and Jenny was not responsible for Sloane’s pain in the way that Sloane was responsible for Jenny’s.

grok,”

Hitchcockian protagonist,

Dr Levy was playing chess with the blond actor from the Burg Theatre, but it was hard to concentrate for today he knew with certainty that he would never resit his medical exams in English. At forty-two he was too old to begin again – and even if he passed, they would find some other regulation for keeping him from practising. Not that he blamed

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.

Know Where You Are

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.