Hourglass

By Daria Lavelle

You’re fifteen your first time with a Supe.

Eleanor’s her name — her alter — but she doesn’t reveal that when she saves your life, just like you don’t reveal your real age. You look a little older anyway, could pass for your twenties, a sort of timelessness to the cut of your face.

“I’m sorry,” she says, setting you down on the sidewalk, self-conscious despite the…