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She was thinking about what she would say when the time came.

They need to be named, loved, then unnamed to be seen once more.

I thought that proved he blamed me. I thought they all did.

What better place to write the great American novel than North Africa?

My children, children, remember to let me go, delete my number.

I grip the handlebar and pin my eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable crash.

She pulls quickly on her cigarette and blows it at me through the phone.

It was comforting to see her suffer the way we suffer, hollowed out.

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

What my father and I destroyed, I take back—kneeling, among the shells.

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

No one answered. I turned to his parents. My stomach felt on fire.

Raw, glistening—god’s design. Her newborn flesh-on-the-bone.

It comes as no surprise that everything is flying toward one point.

Anytime I drifted off I wished to wake up against a cold, silent body.

Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.

A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.

You don’t feel anything when they cut you, not at first, just the blood.

“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.

Each harbored a sense that a family of three was not a real family.

Despite seeing the other knockoffs, I hoped my dress would be perfect.

We looked at each other beneath a London sky, on a Zeppelin night.

“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

You can always tell the military folk by their even stance, their steady gaze.

I told kids I didn’t feel a thing there anymore, but it was a lie.