Fallon Necklace

Fallon NecklaceTHE STORY I found this shell. That is where the story begins, and honestly it is where it ends too, because nothing I could invent would be more interesting than the truth. I was walking, not looking for anything in particular, the way you sometimes move through the world when you are not in a hurry, and there it was. Large, luminous, iridescent, sitting there like it had been waiting. I picked it up and I couldn't put it down. I carried it home and I

Every tendril is a different length

It is a ring you feel

Its bold red pairs beautifully with black

Disciplined

The absolute refusal to be ordinary

The internal band features an adjustable tension closure engineered to support the tiara's substantial structure securely across all head circumferences without compromise

helmet off

sitting right at the throat

became the Virika

the ancient Greek goddess of night

I made Manassa for the woman who recognizes herself in that

then at a crescent