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Brothers & Sistersexpand_moreThe neighbors were Ukrainians with bad tempers and owned guns.
I taste on my tongue a gunshot of synapses warm and light like butter
It was a very strange dinner. I didn’t dare ask my parents questions.
Instead of attunement, I was given a pair of size 6 Toughskins.
You know that sex isn’t everything. It’s time to get a move on.
My sister says, vicious as possible, “Don’t you dare try to protect me.”
All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.
Break me like bread. Take me apart. Strip each rib down to light.
Eleanor opened the door to Nick’s bedroom and felt breathless with fury.
I’m always driving through the desert, on the interstate’s black river.
Idzia is a little monster. For a monster, though, she’s awfully cute.
The everlasting shines through in the threshold between worlds.
I looked up how much everything would cost. Giving birth: $9,000.
I hear my brother’s wife whisper, It’s her again. Let the machine get it.
I returned to research a history we’d only known through stories.
These days I watch the world go by and do not breathe life into it.
In all the faded retellings of that night, there’s a lot he left out.
Cruelty is cruelty and you don’t ask why, you just hit first and hit hard.
In my sister’s memory, an old woman chased after the oranges.
The graffiti suggests the most essential story of New Haven.
It’s been months, and the fields are good for nothing but night talks.
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.
She wants something red and shiny that always works.
She had come to the scene where she needed to get them in bed.
He pretended he was in his boat, his cellmate’s flushing, Arctic Ocean.
A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.
In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.
“Jesus Christ,” Dad said, after the counselor spelled it out for him.
Loss. That word echoed in my ears as my eyes ranged around the garden.
Our neighbors the Bells are watching, watching us when we play outside.