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Illnessexpand_moreWhen you turn fifty, you have to prove to yourself you’ve got something left.
She wags her index finger so furiously that I’m certain it will snap off.
We know of friends and relatives who have passed away, young and old.
My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.
He would sneak into my room, we would have sex, he would sneak out.
It is not surprising that her solo marathon did not turn out as planned.
My hands only knew. The painkillers in our mothers’ cabinets.
On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain dissolves like a Eucharist wafer.
Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.
The dope worked, though he felt ashamed using it, smoked in secret.
She knew Jim would be a terrible husband. They’d murder each other.
Ten years ago, when I was in college, my father divorced my mother and said he wanted me to become responsible for her. That is why I fled to Italy.
I hang there, upside down, watching Bronwyn, her face beatific.
Insomnia! There is a sickly romance to the affliction—initially.
I hear pleasure ringing, and I wonder what led us to this moment.
He knew deep down that only her ridiculous optimism kept them going.
The Village wasn’t really a village. No walnut trees. Just cut flowers.
Riding back from her studio, Ivy thought, I’ll just stop for a minute.
If I had known I would have saved the abacus from the fire.
I hand in my form. I wonder if the doctor with the needles will laugh at me.
“How is it fair that you know who I am but I have to guess about you?”
The hut was cluttered with the skulls and bones of small animals.
Not long after Christmas, the smoke really hit Melbourne.
The Bengalis negotiate their space with corrupt politicians and landsharks.
Eight years, and she was ready to call it quits. They were both ready.
Mom often went to work on her days off. The library was her refuge.
It was the year we learned to wash our hands. That was one lesson.
The beasts and fowl and all manner of slithery thing can love like us.
It will be years before the kids see us as real people, not just as parents.
