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“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.

I can’t see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better.

In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

Decay enters us through the eyes. As always I lose focus.

The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.

When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.

It was cool and dark, azalea in bloom at the edge of the forest.

In search of the life we all agree is so desirable—art, romance, freedom!

Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

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

Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.

Delighted to be there, celestial together, as high as you get.

Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.

There was a dry snap inside the door of the safe. “There it is.”

“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”

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

Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.

Loved this little portal to my past so much that I went looking for others.

Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.

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.

The dead and alive who we will never see again but in dream or memory.

I found myself wondering what her life had been in her widowhood.

I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.

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

You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.

After days of torture in secret prisons, they were about to let him go.