Sublime

denouement.

a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but

“If you’re good, I’ll bring ye back something from America,” he said. “But not if there’s tears.”

But how could they be good AFs for their children if their minds could invent ideas like these?

He was such a fan. Every collaboration needs one.

But the child exhausted her in a different way. He tortured her with constant, shrill needfulness.

It was easy to dislike the man; it was harder to dislike the little boy who existed just below the surface of the man.

A child is expert at frightening himself,

reverie,