#670 Jellyfish- Danielle Evans
The roof is caving in. For William this is literally what is happening in his life. For his daughter Eva, it was symbolic of the state of her life. This is a Father/Daughter story. A few days after Williams apartment was condemned and lost forever, he was on his way to meet Eva for a celebratory lunch. She was running late having woken up in her ex-boyfriends bed, his new girlfriend out of town.
There is a loneliness throughout this story. We see normal parent-child sentiments like this: “Sometimes he thought her whole life was an elaborate series of barricades against him.”
And more vulnerable realizations that make life seem cold and disconnected: “There were moments when you new things about what was inside of people you didn’t want to, knew how deeply they could disappoint you.”
Each character in the story has their own disappointments, has hurt someone close to them, and doesn’t know how to make themselves happy. There is love here, but not any self-love.
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