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They were such dummkopfs they kicked out the Jews.

I imagined myself magnanimous, but now I see. I have been cruel.

I never prayed before. Since this happened I’ve been praying every night.

Virginia surprises herself: she wants this warmth, wants skin and breath.

Frank Avery came into the kitchen. In his left hand he carried a .22 pistol.

He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.

poor Larry. you never asked to be raised from your tomb.

I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.

There was one lease Homer Young wanted above all others.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

Left Behind climbed the Octopus Tree to find the source of fire.

There was a special kind of power in playing the father of God.

Since the day the bell was cast I have sat in the bishop’s carved chair and waited my turn.

“Leaving for war, Hayes wept. He didn’t just cry; he wept...”

She closed her mind to all familiar shapes and strained back.

You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.

If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.

I never entered no-man’s-land by any light brighter than the palest moon.

“There’s life after birth! That’s what jails and lethal injections are for!”

I answered, blood rushing like the shadow cast by a cloud of starlings.

He showered, shaved, put on a clean shirt, then lay down to die.

The attendant instructs remember, immerse three times.

Sundays, your wife at Mass, we locked ourselves in my room.

It was as the angel speaking of Isaac, a deception, a test to survive.

I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.

How High Is the Moon? Too high to be touched, too high to be felt.

I have a maple in the yard and from time to time all is distant.

Salve, salve, Regina. As the song ends, he folds into the fabric seat.

Most people come to Africa because they are drawn to its misery.

The dead men don’t look like themselves or anybody else.