Another scorcher. Waiting for Tereza in the small woods she’d dubbed The Island, Linda closed her eyes and pretended the pines were palms and their cones coconuts. Last year Aunt Libby airmailed a coconut from a real island and Daddy smashed it open with a hammer. Aunt Libby was a buyer for a dep...
—Time as Chorus in The Winter’s Tale SHE TOOK THE HAND HE EXTENDED AND STEPPED OUT OF THE CAR. When she reached for the baby, he said, “I’ll do that. We need to get you in first.” Had the muscles in her back and legs not ached from pushing Nicole out, had her anus not been on fire from who the he...