Sublime

mirth.

Dinnertime comes and goes, but none of them can imagine eating. It seems like something only people in films do, something lovely and decorative, that whole act of raising a fork to your mouth. Some kind of purposeless ceremony. The phone does not ring.

He couldn’t wait to show Rachel off to everyone. He couldn’t wait for everyone to see what he’d accomplished in his life.

charming and generous and always saying kind things, and then when she wanted something she was sure you couldn’t say no.

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women

This baby’s life would rely on my maternity leave, my savings, my body, my career. I would have to make all the sacrifice while Andy’s life could continue mostly as normal. He disingenuously offered to give up comedy and be a stay-at-home dad. We both knew that would never happen.

logorrheic

skyrocketing.

The shows seemed like the perfect form for her. Each day, the stories inching forward, but at the end of the week, the world essentially unchanged, the characters exactly who they had always been.