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I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

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.

Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and was still unmarried.

Part of me wished I’d never tried heroin. The rest wanted to be high.

It had been four weeks and five days since she confronted him.

Once she had loved him. When had she stopped? She did not know.

The little door would appear in my mind’s eye, except that now it was ajar.

Sometimes a story is like a beehive. Sometimes an idea is like a poem.

I know quite well that I’m still a beginner and have a long way to go.

The noiseless trees, the insentient breezes that are not there.

I thought fleetingly he might give it to me, as he knew I wanted it.

She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.

Meghan Dunn

What would make a sane person want to watch such blood sport?

One felt all the poor lady’s barriers were falling save her manner.

By chance you saw. So much had become chance in your life.

This morning I watched two elephants dance the boogie-woogie.

She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.

If you want to know what to write, ask yourself what obsesses you.

We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.

It almost makes you cry, to know that you are no longer needed.

The pain lithified to numbness, and she recalled the time of his courtship.

We talked. She was the same inside as I am, from the same kind.

The first time the world demanded more of me, I was twenty-nine.

The people with pebbles go home to frolic under the detritus of the day.

I hear myself giving advice in my father’s voice: Take the emotion out.