Sublime

The characters are poor dairy farmers. One morning the husband is too hung over to do the milking. His wife does it and when she has finished the cows are frightened by thunder and stampede, trampling her. She is also hooked severely in one leg. Her husband is asleep and does not hear her cry out. Finally she drags herself home and wakes him up. He

a girl—and then a woman—ruled by hungers large and small.

anthropomorphically.”

mbeles

I felt a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.

anathema

Everyone loves a dead girl.

Maybe Ma was never coming home.