Deep Cuts

A conviction that after this experience, divinity will never come from above. Not for her. Only earthly bodies, pressed so close they’re sharing heartbeats, could ever be divine.

He was a complicated shadow on her life too, a heartless waste of precious time.

It had taken a decade-old record to help us figure out what we wanted, and what we wanted was fun—real fun, which requires freedom, and belonging, and affordable housing, and peace from wartime.