I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.

“Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely sep…”

“Fuck you,” Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, b…”

“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and the…”

“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs…”