drown: a novella

"We whisper to our shattered earth: I am singing to the cold hands of water we say I am here. In these trackless forests our laughter gleams in careless bubbles, rising through the darkness of our delight." Drown is a novella about the alternately suffocating/liberating friendship between Cassandra and Aurelia. They have just reached 18, and are struggling with their bonds to each other, to their own identities, and to the place they are in: a suburb outside of Los Angeles, California. The text is also available at www.persephassa.com