Sublime

nor

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

aromatic

phantom

Their dark silhouettes numbed the soft part of his brain, like a bee stinging and numbing a caterpillar, then laying eggs on the surface of its body. The bee larvae use the paralyzed caterpillar as a convenient source of food and devour it as soon as they’re born.

peerless

‘I’m amazed at the clairvoyance of people in love,’ she added with a smile and so that he alone could hear: ‘She wasn’t there. But drop in after the opera.’

A freshly made ear and a freshly made vagina look very much alike,