“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.”

“In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.”

“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.”

“...how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see.”