Sublime

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.

onerous

Flipping backward through the photos, Nicholas feels the years peel off like steamed wallpaper. Always the animals.

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

covet