By admin, 25 November, 2023

Now and then$$$ an inch below the water's surface$$$ the muscles of his stomach tightened involuntarily as he recalled another detail. A drop of water on her upper arm. Wet. An embroidered flower$$$ a simple daisy$$$ sewn between the cups of her bra. Her breasts wide apart and small. On her back$$$ a mole half covered by a strap. When she climbed out of the pond a glimpse of the triangular darkness her knickers were supposed to conceal. Wet. He saw it$$$ he made himself see it again.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh$$$ sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective$$$ [Briony] learned a simple$$$ obvious thing she had always known$$$ and everyone knew: that a person is$$$ among all else$$$ a material thing$$$ easily torn$$$ not easily mended.