We Do What We Do in the Dark

by Michelle Hart

way, Mallory saw herself as a child born of two ghosts.

something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped.”

“This is what people do. If we didn’t talk about the inconsequential things that annoyed us, no one would talk about anything.”

That she had the ability to wound meant she was important, but this importance came with a responsibility that discomfited her.

Mallory thought then that the consequence of living so much of life through books and movies was that actual dramatic things felt unreal.