The Cliffs

by J. Courtney Sullivan

“It means once you meet your kids, it’s hard to imagine their existence as some random act of biology,” Allison said. “As individuals, they seem destined for you. Don’t you think?”

In every graveyard in every town in all the world, there lie buried stories more remarkable and strange than a name, a date, a designation on stone could ever in a million years convey.