Life Preservers

In this next to last installment of The Parlay, Bea reveals the fact that sometimes couples come together for a multitude of reasons. In the cold of the world, two individuals swirl around each other, and sometimes coalesce into a single. For the fortunate, that singularity remains closely knit and the bonds intensify with time. For the less fortunate, as the two orbit each other the swirl of life prevents the space between from collapsing into togetherness and the individuals are slung back apart.

Those that survive the vortex find themselves a rescuer a preserver of life and limb and a maker of a partner for life.