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Friends & Enemiesexpand_moreYou can’t ask her not to fall in love when she does it on a daily basis.
What felt like sanctity now felt like nothingness, like death.
He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.
He smelled like the bars my mother took me to in the middle of the day.
They don’t dance but simply monitor our movements, like bodyguards.
She looks at them through eyes flattened by a confused life.
The transformation of their maid from shadow to sexpot thrills Maizie.
Was that lipstick on Don’s cheek? This was too much for her to take.
As soon as her grandparents left, BLAM, the dance in her died.
My first suicidal ideations occurred to me when I was ten, eleven, twelve.
All down my street the new fathers beat the kingness out of the kings.
Our crowns are made of dead hair and get swept out with the trash.
A woman’s long bare legs stretched up at the edge of the graveyard.
Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.
Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.
Trailblazers we celebrate. Those outcasts, outliers, and outlaws.
Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.
The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.
I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.
For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
She had learned that it was easy to get Sylvi to do things.
The dead man’s suit coat is a good fit through the shoulders.
Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.
Carte blanche is bodily as chalk on dark asphalt, so enliven these eyes.
As far as I was concerned you need never have been my father.
Walking through the snow with her was enough, quiet enough.
I keep waking up on the edge of the black lake. He’s on the other side.
She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.
Hemorrhages, it was thought, do not appear for no reason.
John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.
