Sublime

averred.

I think really I only thought of precisely where she stood as she recovered from seeing blood falling from out the mouth of a man who at that very moment seemed as if he had something to say to her, of the way her elbows were upon the parapet, and how it feels to stand like that, with the water wide beneath and someone like Emerson so near, almost

afternoon woman, sexy Sadie. You don’t want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won’t ever like anyone else.” “I bet you’ve said that before,” Sadie said.

I took that story with me in the coming days and turned it over, like the stone in a ripe peach: the sudden, unexpected hard shock in the centre of everything.