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Betsy recoiled, understanding instinctively what was to come.

People only see that side of him. He is still a boy, learning to be a man.

I stood there, wishing the ground would open up and swallow me.

I wanted to forget my parents’ slow dying together in Ohio.

I have already begun the life-long work of hating my father.

Bo could live with his contradictions. They were what made him whole.

The school’s committed to an all-sterile facility by the year 2025.

A high roller gave her money to stay in his room for the weekend.

“It’s out of the question. It’s a waste of your time. And my money.”

She wondered if tomorrow would fill her with so strange a stirring.

I was tracing my finger along his hoodied back, to draw the route.

The places in between places are like countries themselves.

My grandfather has a space where the tip of his thumb should be.

He didn’t come to arrive, he came to go, and yet that didn’t matter.

Soon I will walk up those same back steps the police took by force.

Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.

As Ilya sauntered back toward us, I saw a boy with nothing to lose.

She had instinct for seeing what she could make happen.

You knelt down to kiss her, avoiding, of course, the wound at her brow.

Every step I’ve taken has been from one tongue to another.

I wanted to tear away at the fabric of my pants, dig open my skin.

There are elephants in the hall looking for their mothers.

You locate the green outline of the state your cousins are inside of now.

I am determined to praise my particular world, so I must praise you.

Just some wine, Ellie told herself. Just to prove she wasn’t chicken.

He was regarded as a visionary and a fool in almost equal measure.

Here we were, seventeen, trapped by the sheer number of bodies.

“People think Sean is a screwup. I want them to know him as I do.”