He’d been here before and wanted to show her something magnificent.

“I felt my pulse quicken when lightning lit the sky again, it was far away and showed the line of floating houses”

I didn’t need to read the headline, “Teacher arrested for Drunk Driving.” 

John noticed the barrier she’d put between them.

Lucinda called the suicide hotline.. The counselor’s parting words were to cook something delicious just for herself. The counselor began with, “too hard to be alone, too hard to have a job you hate, too hard to be a senior citizen so far into debt the only way your life insurance would pay off would…