Dustin Bertram’s Reviews > Sundial > Status Update

“There are two grave stones at sundial, one each for falcon and Mia. But many things lie underground here, unmarked. The whole place is a graveyard.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and picture it like a layer cake or a medieval painting of hell. All the hidden things, lives pressing down on one another. The weight of years, and the heat of guilt forging them diamond-hard.”

“It’s that day again. Once a month it comes around, and we never stop dreading it. The MRI, followed by blood tests.

When we’re finished, he will sit and stare at the maps of our brains for hours, the patterns of dark and light like an aerial view of a city at night.

We are most interesting to our father when we are not present.”

“When people say something is “unthinkable,” what they usually mean is that they don’t want to think it. They are resistant to an idea.

But that is not what unthinkable means. I understand that, now. It means to be confronted with a thought so vast, dark, and monstrous that it will not fit into any known shapes in your mind. It is poison and madness flowering behind your eyes.”