A Study in Drowning

by Ava Reid

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

Miserably, and against her will, Effy realized that she was in a Romance after all. Pedestrian as it might be.

And changing your mind isn’t foolish. It just means you’ve learned something new. Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they’re just, I don’t know, stubborn and ignorant. Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted.”