Clam Down by Anelise Chen Faire featuring a gilded case

featuring a gilded case

rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War

So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever

and the cycle goes on

Clam Down by Anelise Chen Faire featuring a gilded caseWe've all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a "clam" via typo after her mother keeps texting her to "clam down." The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to "clam down" to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to "clam up" when we can't speak, and to "come out of our shell"