( This, disgusted, irritated, plain. Resigned, only in the way in which she might accept the turning of hours, the downing and rise of the sun. )
As if he's the first and only man who's ever lost a son. ( Then, snarling, white of her teeth glistened. Even these, she knows, pretty. Every part of her is. ) As if I didn't.
( Perhaps, some might say, the difference is in the surrender: that she orchestrated the child's demise, where her husband only suffered it. All the same. )
no subject
( This, disgusted, irritated, plain. Resigned, only in the way in which she might accept the turning of hours, the downing and rise of the sun. )
As if he's the first and only man who's ever lost a son. ( Then, snarling, white of her teeth glistened. Even these, she knows, pretty. Every part of her is. ) As if I didn't.
( Perhaps, some might say, the difference is in the surrender: that she orchestrated the child's demise, where her husband only suffered it. All the same. )