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People like Helen loved to display the artifacts of creativity as if that implicated her in the process.
a cosmic reparation.
A short dress that was too formal, either in jewel tones or a faded black. Dresses with some of the same sad reach for elegance as a prom dress. Girls clutching a purse with both hands. Girls in drag as girls.
A vodka soda. It had an ascetic taste, like water gone sick. All the girls had ordered this, the drink of the female martyr.
Each thought that appeared in her brain was smoothed to a psychotic polish.