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Divorced. Wife living with someone else. Pregnant with his child.

We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.

The old-timer outside the guard station was knifing his own tires.

Everyone roared at her wit. Ravenous children prowled like tigers.

A knife left by an untraced foot marks where to lay the body—fácil.

Phaethon thought he could drive the sun but was struck down to earth.

The sounds of Africa exploded around the white men and women.

We know that we were lied to, the disaster was worse than we feared.

Let those shadows sift the spirits of their children from the silt.

My wife fell in love with a dancer. A woman. I came here to get away.

Whitman may just mean: it is pretty cold, but there’s always colder.

she was right—hurricane being the name of the feeling, the twist of it.

They wrapped him in bandages from all three kits. The old man watched them.

We say America you are magnificent and we meant we are heartbroken.

They believed that the American movie should be taken seriously.

It was as if we were shedding our very selves to become someone else.

I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.

A friend said she hated the State of Israel because it killed her cat.

Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.

In a few days the troops were to go further on. I left the next day.

One of the most important human capacities is compassion.

Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?

Sometimes these fools shoot themselves, playing with their weapons.

No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.

It was a very strange dinner. I didn’t dare ask my parents questions.

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

I bought chips from the one open store, but can’t figure out how to eat them.

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

The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.