Looking Glass Sound

by Catriona Ward

I wonder when you stop marking time, as an adult – when life starts. What would I even do with it if I had the freedom – live?

As I get older I see more and more how fluid a thing time is. There are so many ways to slip in and out of it. The wonder is that we ever stick in the now.

He calls after her as she heads down the hall, asking her to wait, but she doesn’t turn. She wants him to feel the distance between them, the indifference of her back.

‘Being old kind of takes the magic out of things,’ Pearl says. ‘It’s sad.’ ‘But also a relief.’ ‘Also that.’