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Livingexpand_moreDo we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?
The irreversible ink stain breaking the face of whatever we skate on.
No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.
poor Larry. you never asked to be raised from your tomb.
I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.
I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.
No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.
I know it’s a problem, that I prefer to think instead of live.
In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.
The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.
It’s wrong to say the lightning is pink is nothing other than to say it’s not.
The itch of hay dust was the unscratchable itch of desire.
Welcome, little citizen. Lend me your presence, and I’ll lend you mine.
Live Dangerously! If you get hurt, the suffering will bring a new being.
A woman from the next table eyed him and he eyed her right back.
The baby in her belly is not a sibling, will never be their playmate.
You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.
To keep the baby safe, we sealed the house as if against bad weather.
We’re phosphorus, we’re this glowing rock under UV light in the mineral shed.
If you play, decide three things: the rules, stakes, and quitting time.
Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.
I returned to research a history we’d only known through stories.
The tall, flashing curtains of glass keep them a breath’s thickness apart.
All that existed was Louisa’s beauty—or Khin’s refashioning of it.
I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.
I have a maple in the yard and from time to time all is distant.
It was hard to know what memories or images had marked him.
Sometimes you weren’t a good daughter, the mother says.
Men can’t sense like that. Or won’t. Even a father don’t dare get that close.
Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!
