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There was an intimacy to the sound that thrilled me.

“Werewolf Seized in Southend!” “Man Who Made Love to Pavements!”

An eye trained only for darkness makes for a lesser path, in art as in life.

The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.

It never occurred to me that I was being sold too, standing inside my box. Basil was annoyed. All that training he’d given me going to waste on art? I’ve been selling cigarettes, I said, as if it were a credential.

It seemed that someone had died, but really it was part of us.

The shapes called them bastard loads. The lazy creations of fools.

Beggars know to emerge when you’ve more than enough to give.

Welcome, the place seemed to say, let’s screw with you a little more.

She was the idiot who fell in love with some high-class gigolo.

He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.

If you’re going to take a degree, take one from the best school you can.

Does he not see our likeness? Fursten seemed to see nothing.

A plastic Kroger’s bag caught in the chinking—Spelter’s only banner.

I looked up from the cave floor to see a guy pointing a handgun at us.

He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.

Her skin was bruised under her eyes, purple like the swollen toe.

Son, do you know of shame? Then you must know that I cannot feel it.

He could smell the bear’s breath, feel the hot huff against his ear.

Henry surprised himself with his inability to start looking for a job.

There was a fish. And then there was the consciousness of robots.

I ask that now I be allowed to see the one my vision has been denied.

The ego with which we began filters away as love accumulates below.

My father was at an awful disadvantage in a sport where cunning is a virtue.

“were all here pregaming. at my dads apt. Wher the duck are u.”

It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.

We were hurtling close to a hundred miles an hour through the dark.

He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.

They tried to kill us, my sisters, mother, and me; I still have the scars.

In that instant, Niel lost one of the most beautiful things in his life.