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I’m still in love with this filthy city, but now I know Berlin's love isn’t free.

I could page the women’s voices in their velvet bags bound with string.

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.

“I might surprise you,” Mr. Maxi said. Polly hoped he’d go all out.

I walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own.

Don’t tell him you’re a virgin, says Peggy. You’ll freak him out.

We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.

They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.

Draw me a map of your agonies, all the missing rivers you dried.

Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?

He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.

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.

On that still, snowy day, Mick’s neck popped like a flaming log.

This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.

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.

Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you’re in bed with
a relative.

The face of love is a poem I am writing in an air-conditioned room.

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

Your mother still glows with a smoothness that you envy.

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

It was a Saturday night in November when his diagnosis finally came.

I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.