Sublime

caustic

Every day meant two scoops out of the kibble. The bag became an hourglass counting down their final days with Belinda.

ambient

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crisis of taste,

She felt pleasure in orderly things—a perfectly efficient section of code,

Her thumbs twitching over her phone’s tiny keys, summoning up facts,

grok

gingerly