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My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.

We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.

The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”

Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.

Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.

Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?

L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.

I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.

Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.

Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.

The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?

It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.

He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.

I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.

There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.

The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.

A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.

Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.

If, on your deathbed, you want to watch a movie, don’t let me pick.

We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.

Merwin discovered and restored eighteen acres of abandoned land.

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

He always talked of making money with the air of a connoisseur.

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

To fulminate, to go on a tear, because what’s wanted is forbidden.

A man sits in the Institute of National Memory examining files.

I ask if you are all right until you can be nothing but not all right, not okay.

The stupider the president the more power you arrange for him.