Status Updates From The Relentless Moon (Lady A...

It’s amazing how many lies one can tell with the truth.

Some people will find it absurd that I put on a fresh coat of lipstick before going in to see Nathaniel. Here’s why I did. He needed to think that he had not inconvenienced anyone. If I looked well groomed, then it implied that I had not been sitting there for over five hours.

let me tell you a joke that is not funny. When you see a woman with stitches in her chin and ask her what she did to make her husband angry. There are two scenarios. The first is that she’s happily married and you’ve insulted their relationship. The other is that her husband is abusive and she will not thank you for endangering her by drawing attention to it.