Sublime

Two story lines at work, with different starting points but running parallel to each other.

Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her heart.

Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.

the bookstore was inhuman.

benighted.”

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.