The Beckoners

“I am not going to lie to you just because that’s what you want to hear.”

Oh, but wait, we all know what Alice would say to that.

“Whoever said life was fair, Zoe? Did I ever say life was fair? Now I know I’ve said a lot of things about life, but I never said it was fair, did I?” No, she never did, but that didn’t mean she was right. It just meant she knew how to rework tired old parental clichés.