Sublime

She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.

sweet affections and austere diktats, hugs and kisses mixed with stony pronouncements: “It’s

‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on

duplicitous