The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding

by Lydia Kang

In retrospect, it was all so superficial, but he’d made her feel special. And who was immune to such overtures?

“When Ruby is with me, it feels like . . . like a dream. The kind where you know you’ll wake up soon, so you’re frantic to make the dream last longer, but the whole fear of it disappearing makes everything worse.”