Comic · Sphinx Moth Press

A Brief, Fleeting, Almost Impossible Gift

Maya's family thought money would buy everything--sunny days, a new house, a new life in Hawaii. What it didn't buy was time. Within weeks of their move, Maya is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and she finds herself torn between two lovers: Elijah, a forthright, daring boy whose own dying gives him a fierce appetite for living, and Gabriel--the mysterious, luminous, and possibly dangerous, stranger who keeps appearing at her bedside and in the margins of her most desperate hours. One offers flesh-and-blood tenderness. The other promises a strange, solemn mercy. As time runs out, Maya must decide what matters most--memory, meaning, or the last bright days she can steal from fate--before the blood that sustains her runs out.