The Crane Wife - The Paris Review

month. “Someday you will,” she said lazily. “Someday it all comes.” There in the sun on her terrace it seemed easy to believe in someday, but later I had a low-grade afternoon hangover and ran over a black snake on the way to the supermarket and was flooded with inexplicable fear when I heard the checkout clerk explaining to the man ahead of me why... See more

this isn't how I planned for my life to look like," I whispered under my breath as I walked to my car "tell me about it," an eavesdropping cloud replied to me from above I looked up and watched the cloud billow between looking like a dove and an open hand the cloud continued: "I used to be a snowfield in Montana. I used to be a dewdrop kiss o... See more