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Illnessexpand_moreThey caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.
In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.
I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.
He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.
My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.
“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”
I told kids I didn’t feel a thing there anymore, but it was a lie.
“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”
He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.
After days of torture in secret prisons, they were about to let him go.
My husband screws around. Not much and not often, but I know.
“With me for an uncle you don’t never need to be afraid of him, baby.”
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.
She could not have known how uncannily she resembled me.
The eyes looked into his own with a meaning, a malign significance.
This is not deception. This is a subtle way of conditioning.
I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.
I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.
All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.”
“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”
He handed us sticks of dynamite, rolled in wax paper like taffy.
Miss Moses smiled, I could take you, buster. Don’t try anything with me.
Your mother still glows with a smoothness that you envy.
She was no man’s dark dream, only a girl forced to swim half-clothed.
Ron Carlson
Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.
Sneaking was one thing, entering a bar with a someone else’s ID another.
I forgot to detail that the jumper leapt from beside the hanging Monet.
