Hildur käynnisti auton ja laittoi lämmityksen täysille. Vasta sen jälkeen hän kiinnitti surffilaudan autonsa katolle, repi jääkylmin sormin neopreenipuvun yltään ja vaihtoi ylleen takapenkillä odottaneet kuivat vaatteet. Autin sivupeilistä hän näki veriset kasvonsa. Näky ei hätkähdyttänyt, sillä hän oli melko varma, että haava oli pieni. Pään alueen haavoista vain valui paljon verta. Hildur sylkäisi musta […]

She’d thought, I’ll do this first and think about it afterward. Now afterward had come and she had no idea what to think. I am baptized, I am married, I am Lila Dahl, and Lila Ames. I don’t know what else I should want. Except for the shame to be gone, and it ain’t. I’m […]

There’s a shimmer on a child’s hair, in the sunlight. There are rainbow colors in it, tiny, soft beams of just the same colors you can see in the dew sometimes. They’re in the petals of flowers, and they’re on a child’s skin. Your hair is straight and dark, and your skin is very fair. […]

We were very upset, all the same, for reasons too numerous to mention. Clearly our aunt was not a stable person. At the time we did not put this thought into words. It existed between us as a sort of undifferentiated attentiveness to all the details of her appearance and behaviour. At first this took […]