And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

“Exactly one month after he was convicted, when the lights were dimmed and the d…”

“He was a detective, but he didn’t detect anything. It fell into his lap, alread…”

“Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You mi…”

“If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might tu…”