Sublime

proffered

rictus

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

imperious

I knew that Ethan cared about me as much as his unresolved trauma allowed. Some people are just limited. You have to meet them where they are.

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