Alone with You in the Ether

by Olivie Blake

Adalina Damiani had taught both her son and her grandson to cook, but while Masso found cooking to be a religious experience, Aldo considered it something best reserved for special occasions, or homesickness. Though, in his experience, most people considered religion precisely the same way.

This has to be a metaphor, Regan thought. “That’s not a metaphor,” Aldo said. “Of course not,” Regan agreed.