Sublime

Versa Uno: Help the one you’re with. Versa Dos: This child is your child. No matter her mood, she must care for her as if newly born from her own body.

But the whole time it’s as though she has been a sleeping beauty in between these two kisses.

She was quiet and cheerful, and she had a delight in things that gave her father a feeling that was like nostalgic reverence.

Sylvie leaned against the wall. Because she was clear about what she didn’t want, she was alone. She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn’t yet whoever she was becoming. She was grateful that her father had prepared her for this type of hard, lonely ground. Because of him, Sylvie knew she could exist outside the boundaries of her past and

When we’re all together, the world revolves around Evelyn, and why wouldn’t it. Her long hair shimmers in the glare of high summer, sun-bleached at the temples. She has new things to wear: a peach sundress and sandals with leather butterflies sewn on the ankle straps. She’s full of herself in the lovely outfit, gaining great pleasure out of her own