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I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.

We had a pact to live outside the adult world forever, and we broke it.

It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.

I have not won yet, but I behave, I feel and think like a rich man.

Why is a duel out of the question? Men are all cocks; they should fight.

It’s not clear that Hemingway completely knew what he was doing.

The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.

He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.

Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.

Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.

That autumn, my first in San Francisco, I ran short of money.

We’ve tried, but it seems it is in the stars for us to hate each other.

Hands that have waved farewell, sooner or later I will see them again.

She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.

Recently a man in my town took up residence on the football field.

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.

“Folks need other folks, that’s all I mean. Especially here in the Ohio.”

It’s all good,” Mila says, meaning, it’s so not, her voice glass-like.

This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.

These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.

I can already feel the stone’s resistance as I work the first pass.

Rebecca beheld the sword which was suspended over her people.

His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.

Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”

“We have heard that this blackened smear is art. We do not see it.”