eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine …”

“It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it g…”

“Bleeding heart, he’d called her.Well. He should know.He’d been the first to rip…”

“She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as …”