Lydia Millet

An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world.

A Novel

A Children's Bible

Lizzy Jensen

Long after the others had slipped into their sleeping bags and tents, I lay out in the grass and watched the green waves. Finally had my alone time. 

Genghis Khan had seen the waves, if you believed Low. The Inuit had seen them. Walruses and penguins. And now I was seeing them. But who would see them later? 

I thought of sparkling platforms in space, silver airships moving in front of the billions of stars. I thought of vines that grew over the ruins of buildings and monuments. I felt an itch and thought, is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin?

And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive. 

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