Sublime

Sadie’s community service project went on for fourteen months. Predictably, it ended the day Sam discovered its existence. Their friendship amounted to 609 hours,

No one knew who had fathered her child or could fathom how she came to build such a fine house when she was a woman alone with no apparent means of support.

with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned in the lake by her cousin’s house. There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”

grok,”

Auntie too opened her door. She had been busy sorting out her magazines, putting them neatly together in bundles and tying them up with string – ten years’ worth of issues, they were valuable items.

bloviating