Diavola

by Jennifer Marie Thorne

It seemed to Anna that the concept of “vacation” was antithetical to the concept of “family.” Vacation required vacancy. The abandonment of all scraps of everyday life.

Control was antithetical to life. To be alive is to be battered about. To endure and adapt and keep stumbling onward despite it all.

“This is what most people spend their lives trying not to face. The pointlessness of it all. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold because there was never any center in the first place.”