Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a…”

“Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck betwee…”

“What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catal…”

“Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take …”