The Personal Assistant

by Kimberly Belle

half a million wasn’t enough. Three-quarters of a million wasn’t enough.

I just have a talent for telling people what they want to hear.”

And maybe that’s the lesson here, that even in the midst of the messiest, scariest lives, there are moments of beauty, and you have to be relentless in snatching them up. In holding them up to the world as proof that, despite everything, you can still feel joy. Even if you’re not quite there yourself.

Mega thanks, too, to my agent, Nikki Terpilowski, for the many (many!) reads and suggestions.