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Put yourself in bad positions, they’ll remind us. Address your weaknesses.

Ghost still pace Georgia, hungry for babies, for husbands.

She was thinking about what she would say when the time came.

Mark looked down at the fortune cookie as if it were a summons.

“Aren’t you full of surprises,” Talinda would have said. If she had known.

“Whoa, look—the monkey prof. Can you believe it? He was just on TV.”

I’m trying to manage my dumb-dumb time machine brain and be here.

That there are five sturdy red Gerber daisies in a jar on the table.

The consensus was that all the great writers drank way too much.

Both Sherlock Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath.

“I have always had a gift of feeling what is in other people’s hearts.”

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

“were all here pregaming. at my dads apt. Wher the duck are u.”

It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.

It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.

It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.

When I meet his gaze, he’s frowning, a hint of anger flashing in his eyes. When saw the fury in his eyes, I thought he was going to kill him.

We were hurtling close to a hundred miles an hour through the dark.

“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”

He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.

I open the gift: a small ocelot, its mouth a cave, pearl teeth waiting.

Stopping it, Cye knows, is like stopping a tsunami with a tennis racket.

In that instant, Niel lost one of the most beautiful things in his life.

He was staring at his car like you might a stare at a dog.

I am drawn to these victims because I was there the night they were killed.

Of late a graduate student named Cassius has joined our ranks.

The division of the community had become more marked than ever.

Meghan Dunn