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“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

The rifle slams into my shoulder. Smoke pummels the air.

The architect is twice my age and owns an ivy-covered house.

The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.

Near to closing, he’d flop down in the chair to count his moldy money.

The eyes of men were drawn, numb and automatic, to her youthfulness.

Then I graduate to a four-digit mortgage inside an ornate gate.

“We don’t feel like a couple. Haven’t felt like a couple for a very long while.”

He smelled like the bars my mother took me to in the middle of the day.

There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.

Everything is mine on loan: the leaves I’ve combed out of my hands.

I reviewed the rules for myself, among them: stay in the moment.

She had boyfriends before she met him. Well, not really boyfriends.

Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.

Lust for power and money undermined their morality and common sense.

Trailblazers we celebrate. Those outcasts, outliers, and outlaws.

Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.

The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.

I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.

For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.

Our culture cherishes a fantasy of a certain writerly existence.

A story about money, values, and materialism—in just six words.

Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.

Descent jumps and jostles, nausea drops me back to the floodplain.

Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.

Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.

A wildness and all the ways I could never be classy enough for pearls.