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The child writes, Child, and is amazed at this word on the page.

It’s other things than the like of you would make a person afeard.

He thought about kissing her. Then he decided that she was just lonely.

Together we invented intimacy, both its benefits and its horrors.

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

All her sisters have gone to bed, dreaming dreams not like the wakeful.

I let him record me doing it all. I wanted to watch me be a monster.

The room barely fit a bed, a chest of drawers, and a rocker, all not hers.

home is his hands, our bowls, so many gay fridge magnets.

The house is full of houseguests and they’re giving Netflix a workout.

The power to alter one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark.

I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.

I was the man in her life. I know I’m different now. Now I’m a bird.

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

I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

The boy in the woods was a secret. My secret. My first real secret.

Thus John Redding grew to manhood, playing, studying and dreaming.

I didn’t know that by falling for you, I was falling for your demons too.

Sometimes I wonder if he—my father—looks back on that moment.

I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.

If he wanted to kiss Sophie tonight, he probably shouldn’t steal from her.

It was the day I told a lie that would embarrass me for years to come.

They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.

Lean close and kiss each other: dig down as far as down goes.

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

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

These men don’t ask me to remove my scarf, even though it’s mid-July.

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

Napoleon, who can say you don’t deserve my allegiance?

All afternoon it rains on the traffic outside my window. It’s nothing new.