“I stretch out my arms to him, but he slips away. Like a ghost at daybreak. And I am left here.”— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“Atoms bind into crystals, silver deposits in the backyard. Nocturne of cloud and shadow, I dream backward into daybreak.”— L. A. Johnson, narrativemagazine.com