I feel a shaking in me, and it's the ground. It's like the ground is shaking and I will slip through.

Then, in a flash, his hands reach out and, like in a movie, really, the coffee cup falls to the cement steps with a sharp crack, and he grabs my arms and his face is filled with everything that is urgent and loving and meaningful in the world.

I feel so powerful, like a god, thunderbolt in hand.

And my thunderbolt hit.

Auteur: Megan Abbott