When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.
She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.