A Study in Drowning

by Ava Reid

It was an eternal feeling, this sense of being unwelcome. No matter where she was, Effy was always afraid she was not wanted.

There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.

We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform.