Things Said to Your Face, Once
What the t-shirt puts on your chest is directness. In her story, Olwen doesn't dress up a no or fill silences: she answers after a pause, as if the question had to cross the whole field before it reached her, and when she does answer she doesn't waste a word either way. She got that economy from her mother, who ran the farm's sheep flock saying just enough. That's why the council people avoid her and the valley old-timers respect her.







