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That’s what I want, to feel terrified, excited, and free, all at once.

She’d planned to choose an adult film and lie back with him to watch.

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

I put out my lips, and we kissed through the newly painted fence.

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

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

Mostly, 90 percent of the time, the big ones trigger the bad attacks.

Of the sixteen candidates only eight would make the final cut.

I was born hating paths, apostasy. We came alive wrong for union.

“If a man wanted, he could be anything and not come back.”

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

Her father is important in his village and has three wives.

Atomic bomb. How could those two words be said together?

Diane Kirsten Martin

shoulds & shouldn’ts unwound now to dids & didn’t

Close mist around window. I attempt gender. Deposit each letter.

“You are too young for politics, too beautiful for a jail cell.”

Their hands were acting as airfoils, producing lift, not drag.

There were women everywhere, all naked or nearly naked.

Anne Marie Rooney

The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.

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

The human heart is far more intricate than any single term can describe.

The Wolf put on a great performance, crawling around on the stage.

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

The rich man adorns himself and the elegant man gets dressed.

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

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