Sara Gran

WE COULD devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either

Everyone has thoughts like this from time to time: What if I burned my husband? What if I pushed him off this cliff? What if I jumped off this roof? The thought came into my head and then disappeared just as quickly.

I tried to catch her off guard, to scream out the truth at an unexpected moment. But you can’t surprise a thing that lives inside you

He had imagined a person was as sleek and neat on the inside as outside. He couldn’t stand the mess, the chaos, the blood.