Sublime

finding the untouched core of herself,

malaprop.

realizes that he needs to spend his life making strange things.

The last time I saw him was at the summer solstice festival, where he was bare-chested for the peach pie eating contest, letting the little old biddies in town put dollar bills in his waistband. Before that, it was Layla and Caleb’s housewarming. He brought strawberry shortcake Jell-O shots. I think he consumed the entire tray himself. “It’s funny

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.

And they owe it to what Baseball Twitter would call a TOOTBLAN, “Thrown Out on the Bases Like a Nincompoop.”