Though I said I was finished with fiction after the novel, the brain sometimes brings me story ideas fully formed. π
Louise Bel-Adair, Who Grew Up Watching Her Other Selves Die
"Only the close ones," says Louise at her junior prom. It is a dreadful time to be talking about this, but the boy had asked, and even as his question broke her heart, because she realized now why he'd invited her at all, she'd decided that she at least wanted to be heard if she was never going to be loved.