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She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

Ron Carlson

I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

No fountains to quench the thirst between rounds of tag.

Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.

It was a Saturday night in November when his diagnosis finally came.

She is eight years old and doesn’t recognize the word divorce.

Years they sought her, whose crew left on the water a sad Welsh hymn.

The moment in your drunk when you become rich! A connoisseur.

She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.

We chose to stay in the brutality of that night, even as the girls walked away.

I understood that for us there would be no mourning the shortstop.

When he kisses me, my heart flutters in my chest like swarming bees.

After nearly a year of dating, I never stopped thinking of that other boy.

He was warm that way, always tender, and maybe that’s the worst part.

Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.

No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.

“Hey, you look lost,” the hunter had said. “You better come with me.”

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.

My mother and I remained apart. My father came late to the party.

She asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you can do with your body?”

My books, I can hardly read them, they make so much sense.

Love speaks in silence, on behalf of lovers too tired for words.

She looks down the street for Scott’s truck. He’s late but so is she.

Before he started spraying he would hand her the mask to put on.

David Lee

My mother is queen of buttons. She shows off the prized ones.

Nothing likes to be abandoned, no one likes to be compared.

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.