Immaculata

Summer stood at bay but for the blue and yellow rays cast from stained glass, falling in panicked swirls across the floor and mahogany benches repeating front to back.
She lit candles here every night from age seven. They shivered in her eyes, hiding in shadows across her face.
“Immaculata,” the voice would say when she mouthed [...]

The Bright Yellow Secret

One bright yellow morning I stumbled as a child from my bed and stepped into the light. Sensing something, I lingered behind my sister when she stepped forth boldly, as if she already knew, as if she had already been introduced to it. But being younger, I had slept longer and the introduction had not [...]