Expectation
Rate it:
Open Preview
Read between December 16 - December 22, 2020
52%
Flag icon
Hannah feels herself like a plant, tendrils reaching out, hooking on to this house, these women, this life.
63%
Flag icon
She wants to stop and hold her husband. To shake him until his water runs clear again, until his secrets fall out.
70%
Flag icon
They sleep late. They eat long breakfasts of yoghurt and honey and nuts and toasted white bread and strong coffee. They angle their chairs towards the sun.
79%
Flag icon
She is hungry for something that she cannot quite name – some elemental nourishment, something wild. She wants to taste salt water. Be scoured. Feel wind and weather on her skin.