Into the Fall

by Tamara L. Miller

Filling her lungs and clearing her mind, Sarah was racked by one irrefutable belief: her husband had not died by the water’s hands.

🫤 water’s hands? I get that she’s trying to imply her that something sinister happened but given how confusing Sara‘s narrative has been this is just frustrating more than anything.

You don’t know my husband. The water would never have pulled him under.”

Ffs 🤦🏼‍♀️ why does this come off so friggin ridiculous?

“Occam’s razor. In the face of the unexplained, the simplest answer is the most likely.” The remembered lines from an undergraduate philosophy course dropped confidently from her lips. “But I’m telling you, my husband did not drown. I don’t know what happened to him, but there is no way the Mirabelle took him. She wouldn’t do that. You need to keep looking.”

If Occam’s razor says that the most likely answer is the correct one, why is Sara bringing it up here when she is clearly wanting to overlook what is the most logical conclusion? That her husband drowned? 🤨

Joan referred to Sarah as a social savant, able to seamlessly merge into the expectations of those around her.

The author is trying to make Sara out to be this chameleon, this hidden genius. The execution of that is way off, though, because all I see Sara is is somebody who is in denial and whose brain is completely scattered

She cradled the secret Bella had just told her, unsure whether to bury it or release it into the world.

I see that she’s trying to build suspense, but given that the secret is revealed like a page or two later, it’s really just annoying

She saw a plain brown envelope taped to the bottom. The cliché made her laugh.

Well, that’s good because this cliché made me laugh too 😑

“I love you, Sarah Dix.”

lol Dix 🫠