I soaked her hospital gown with tears, clutching the fabric in my little fists, ignoring Momma’s soft pleas to get off her ill sister. With the sound of my soul shattering on the hospice floor like delicate china.Īnd Auntie Tilda, wilting inside her hospital bed, her breath rattling in her empty lungs like a penny. The flower is known to be poisonous to the touch and deadly to consume.Īnd, like the mythological goddess Persephone, it only blossoms in spring. It is also referred to as the heart flower or as lady-in-bath. The bleeding heart is a pink and white flower that bears a striking resemblance to the conventional heart shape. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: “Red Right Hand” White Stripes: “Hardest Button to Button” He is about to find out the most lethal poison is also the sweetest. He thinks I’ll buckle under the weight of his mind games. Persephone wasn’t only the goddess of spring she was also the queen of death. Now I’m the eldest Fitzpatrick brother’s little toy.

The price for the money, it turns out, is my freedom. Only Cillian doesn’t hand out free favors. What’s a hundred grand to one of the wealthiest men in America, anyway? Bail me out of the mess my husband got me into. Now I need him to do me another, small solid. To me, he is the man who (reluctantly) saved my life. Hades in a Brioni suit.Ĭillian Fitzpatrick has been dubbed every wicked thing on planet earth. He didn’t bother with a rehab assignment, just rolled straight back to the majors.Cruel. Jarren Duran…well let’s just hope he hits to the corners and we get some fun!īryce Harper is back from Tommy John surgery. Rafael Devers leads the AL in home runs with 11. 259/.301/.393 start - so the Sox may catch him at a good time. New acquisition Trea Turner is off to just a. Old friend Kyle Schwarber has 7 home runs on the year. The defense here isn’t strong still, hence the ERA/FIP divide. Behind Wheeler, literally, are Schwarber and Castellanos flanking the outfield. He’s off to a 3.86 ERA / 2.54 FIP start this season and, you know, they just slayed the Kevin Gausman giant so who knows what that means. Zack Wheeler takes the ball for the Phillies. Is this the real Sale? Is he turning back into the ace? Four years is a long time but there’s still some skill there and the Sox could sure use reliable starting pitchers. Chris Sale has just completed a bad start sandwich surrounding a 5-run, five-inning performance against the Baltimore Orioles with two gems: 6-innings, 1 run, 11 strikeouts against the Minnesota Twins and 6.1 innings, 1 runs 5 Ks against the Cleveland Guardians. Fresh off a sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston is riding high. The Red Sox are in third place with a 19-14 record as they face the 15-17 Philadelphia Phillies this weekend.

Boston belles the villain