The Horderby mansion stands on top of a small hill, just steep enough to look

I of course recognize that my father never visited Mars, was not an astronaut, a pilot,

Every morning, Sean’s lunch cooler and coffee thermos sat, waiting for him on the linoleum kitchen

He wakes up and sees love in the sunlight, in his candy heart. Eats fresh fig

          “The one thing they never found a cure for was the freezing,” she said.