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He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.

“Go watch the showgirls, Roy,” said Chino. “It’s educational.”

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.

Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.

He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.

I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.

These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.

I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.

I have three girls from my previous marriages, but she beats them all.

It’s all that I have left of “the old country,” as my mother calls it.

“With me for an uncle you don’t never need to be afraid of him, baby.”

My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.

The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”

I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.

Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.

It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.

She could not have known how uncannily she resembled me.

It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.

Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.

“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”

He whispers words that sound as miraculous as the skinned fish of the clouds my father writhed like pentecostal snakes while he drove drunk