Spectacular Things

by Beck Dorey-Stein

If she’d known what she would be forced to endure, Mia isn’t convinced she’d still be standing. But here she is. What good fortune to be spared one’s fortune. On the floor of her childhood bedroom, Mia breathes with Oliver. She is coming to understand that love and loss live on the same coin. It’s never heads or tails but joy and agony, grief and delight, spinning in the air, waiting on time and luck to determine not when this chapter ends but how the next one begins.