the origin of clouds (a novel)#17
He pulled himself away from the riddle that was left of the living room. Walking further into the house, as if awake before he had intended and faced with […]
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the origin of clouds (a novel)#16
The house was empty. Everywhere Lincoln looked, there were places where things were missing. Abstract patches like absent pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, stamped into beige, living room carpet […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#15
Lincoln came home four days later. He studied the house as he approached the front door. A small, barely two-story house but with a paved driveway and front yard […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#14
It had taken Susan all of the twenty-three years since that moment to know her mother’s turning point. There she was, lonely to herself, growing another life inside […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#13
It would be years before she mentioned that terrifying afternoon or the several more times when men in white emerged—cold, sterile handlers gesturing instructions to one another like mechanics punctuating […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#12
By the time they dragged Laura out of the bathroom, Susan had made up her mind about the three men in white. She had tracked their stiff, white, […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#11
There were many nights when mother crying while father yelled pulled Susan from the static drift of her dreams. She’d lie awake in bed, a cocoon of distractions, tracing […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#10
She was three years old, the age when children begin to notice that there are things that big people call answers, for why the sky is blue and grass […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#9
It was feeling swirling around the thick, nervy pulp, “I love you.” As if it was written in breath, encapsulated in a still, transparent moment she traced back to […]
the origin of clouds (a novel)#8
That moment came. It was not as she had expected, life succumbing to the sudden snap of a rainstorm. After days of walking amid decaying perplexities, loving a man […]
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