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“Why, Ma? I don’t understand. I just don’t want you to be alone.”

Edward the Funny didn’t have much to laugh about in his midthirties.

Eleanor was the first normal person my brother, Nick, ever dated.

Here is my father on the last day of his exceptionally long life.

I bought the gun after my therapist said he wouldn’t have sex with me.

“Listen,” Mike said. “You’ve had a hard day. How about I drive you home?”

I will never know what my mother guessed or didn’t suspect.

My husband shovels snow from flower beds back onto the drive.

When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

That late afternoon in the park, with its kiss, wasn’t an ending or a beginning; it was both. The piano had been a great bird rustling and swooping in the vast space.

Suddenly two would dart and clasp one another belly to belly.

I build our life together as I want it to be.

He was just a bully, uncivilized, out of control, and wanting to lash out.

He was just a bully, uncivilized, out of control, and wanting to lash out.

No matter how much money there is, it can always just drain away.

Her knees seemed about to give way, and he quickly grabbed her elbow.

Walking on Canal Street, I slipped on the curb and fell on my face.

All of those feelings—you do not have them, they have you.

You mixed a drink of sugar, rum, brackish debris. The ice was finite.

I saw the man for the first time in Budapest on the Széchenyi Bridge.

When the thugs from the bank showed, up my father laughed.

He begins to realize that the impossible event may well be about to occur.

You are the only one who knows not to pour water on the flame.

Ask your mother about babies. Ask her about the baby that died.

Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live without really living.

Somewhere along the way her husband had gotten scared.

I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.

The old-timer outside the guard station was knifing his own tires.

I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.