Beautiful and elegant Ellie Spire notices her best friend Alice Peatrunk isn’t happy these days. How can she be after losing her husband and son a year earlier? Life has become an unshielded and emotional blur for Alice as her grieving continues, even with Ellie’s help.
Alice currently resides with Ellie, a temporary arrangement until she can move into her newly-purchased condominium. Ellie’s romantically affected by Alice, though, and finds her more than kind, thoughtful, and extraordinary. Ellie watches Alice: reading, sleeping, and gardening, as summertime swiftly moves forward.
As Ellie’s tender and erotic emotions for her grieving guest heighten, she notes Alice relies on the next door neighbor’s abandoned dandelion garden for therapy. A week passes, then another. But something strange begins to unearth at the garden as the anniversary of Alice’s loss unfolds. Something unsettling, ominous, and troublesome occurs. Ellie notices Alice keeps digging and digging among the dandelions. But why? What’s happening at the garden? A single afternoon’s moment of necessary survival change their lives forever, but is it for better or worse?
You Make Things Better By Faye Worthington Bishop and Coyne are dead. They’ve been for over a year now. I’m sure Alice still thinks about them and the accident on Brushton Road. I’m sure her sadness will never go away. Not in four years. Not in fourteen years. Not in twenty-four years. Never. Life doesn’t work this way and we both realize it. We’re not stupid women. Never have been. Sometimes you can roll around in the garden of plenty and enjoy yourself. Other times the rolling causes tiny pricks that break open your skin and form long, narrow, bloody gashes that won’t stop flowing. It’s always about blood with women. Isn’t it? Of course it is. Alice is usually happy, though. At peace somehow, but still unsettled. I can see her deterred spirit in the tiny crow’s feet around her eyes an
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