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Instead, she stares right at us, her shoulder half-naked in broad daylight.

Her anger was white and cold. It sent seams of ice through my heart.

Her knees seemed about to give way, and he quickly grabbed her elbow.

You are home in your bed like a soft animal with really intense feelers.

A scene from the night before comes rushing forward like a dream.

Brod stopped her before she could fling the latte in Marcella’s face.

Colonel Hammer glares, willing us to attention. A few pilots sit up.

The day was beyond the reach of words like tragic and hilarious.

The barman emanated paranoia, the male customers sat introspecting.

Donald Hall

The story of Wing Biddlebaum’s hands is worth a book in itself.

Come winter, they go to the funeral early & count the living.

She has a small solid mess of troubles she longs to upchuck.

Rules are rules. No one comes this close, this fast. Protocol reigns.

His chest was sweaty and his T-shirt stuck to it, bleeding black.

I want to step out into sun to scintillate for waves to come and spray.

When nobody knows where you are, you get to talk however you want.

Jack picked me up in a car with a greasy-potato sex smell.

The specimen, a man oblivious, is beautiful to behold, perfect, enough.

If I weaseled out of Bible study a little early, he’d speed me to the gym.

What’s wrong with easy? I mean, who wants sex to be hard work?

She pictures her suitcase covered in blood, wishing for anything to happen.

Any white man without a servant was presumed to be in need of help.

Crescencia knew that it was a sin to be in love with a married man.

It was more fun to get drunk with a friend than with a lover.

Claim to be Choctaw or Cherokee. Claim to be a princess too.

Wake up drenched in sweat, with fatigue that reaches to your marrow.

As soon as I heard his voice, I felt as if a wind had swept through my head.

It had always been this way. Mothering, for my mother, was a cameo role.

She looked at him with sorrow, and surprise, despite all the news.