The island slays us. Morning. I arise and spurn the dawn over the eastern horizon. The east is where his body washed ashore: bone-colored board still leashed to bloating ankle and fin sticking up like a white shark beached among the rocks. Both poached by the coming storm— only the third of its size to […]
Metered sunshine. Wind rationed, and rain. A heaven for incrementalists, with chaos always just around the corner. Is it any wonder that he had grown too fond of night, of the ruined castles that lined the Rhine. What was there to do, now that the moon no longer drifted toward fullness, that tonight, orange sail […]
Gracile. An esoteric word, certainly. A thesaurus word if ever there were one. Gloria is gracile. Slender, small, compact. A pixie gold haircut and tanned cheeks. Twenty-two and suffering from recent disappointments reaped from a year abroad interning in Tanzania at the Jane Goodall Institute. Twenty-two, graduated with a biology degree, specialization in zoological sciences, […]
