Cleopatra and Frankenstein

by Coco Mellors

‘Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”

Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.

She wanted him to know that she would always choose him, always take his side, and that even if he never told her what happened to Cleo, she would understand. Because he was her brother and she was his sister. It was that simple and that complicated.