The Cliffs

by J. Courtney Sullivan

The town name, Awadapquit, meant where the beautiful cliffs meet the sea.

Did the living matter as much to the dead as the dead did to the living?

History could only ever be as meaningful as those alive were willing to make it.

Concupiscence was the source of evil in the world. Therefore marriage must also be against God’s will.

Do all your work as if you had a thousand years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow.

“To the uninitiated, blackouts sound made up,” he said. “An excuse. We’ve all had fuzzy memories or nights we’d like to forget. People think it’s that. But it’s not, as you know,