The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler hat torn from his head by the wind...."Trust me," Celia whispers in his ear, and he stops fighting it, forgetting everything but her.

Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.