Sublime

Nóra held her tongue still and let her grief sit in her like a stone.

A woman was leaving the asylum on midsummer morning. She went warily down steps leading to a gravel drive, observing her own feet with interest and care, as she might have watched children inclined to run into the road.

Vasalisa’s initiation begins with learning to let die what must die.

Michel resta silencieux ; il n'était pas surpris. La plupart des femmes ont une adolescence excitée, elles s'intéressent beaucoup aux garçons et au sexe ; puis peu à peu elles se lassent, elles n'ont plus très envie d'ouvrir leurs cuisses, de se mettre en lordose pour présenter leur cul ; elles cherchent une relation tendre qu'elles ne trouvent pas

“Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition” by the poet Lucian

and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer.

Easily, he slept; and as he slept, the woman in the photograph took her arm from the pastor’s waist, and crossed the parched lawn towards the camera. Her black skirts, thickly beaded at the hem, obscured the view of Bethesda; then her fine and muddied boots came over the frame, and were first set squarely on the table, then one by one on the floor: