Status Updates From Another Country

I think she earned that. I don’t like Richard.

Every sex scene in this book is an incantation, and the spell it conjures gives the effect of shimmering black powder floating on the face of a warm, onyxite ocean, lit sharply and brilliantly by a white cold moon, that moves you around, gently, at random, until the whispering is over, and you’re back in your seat, reading your book.