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I hate it here, but I’ll make the best of it, because that’s what mothers do.

My advice can be succinctly expressed in three words: Persist, persist, persist!

I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

He phones from across the country after lying in the grass with another.

My father was neither kind nor strong in his bruising.

When we’re all together like this it feels like hope is a possibility.

I’m a theatrical lyricist. I would never choose to look fat in public.

She’d planned to choose an adult film and lie back with him to watch.

In the street waiting for a cab, Ann’s boyfriend entrusted me with the story.

I would chase it to the shores of the lake where the killer waited.

Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.

Silence, it turned out, was a thing you could buy.

Their marriage had dwindled to a separation and a running joke.

ConEd drills the street to dendrites, tapping morse at the old house.

Husk was sturdy. He just breathed like it. Not like me. My lungs rattle.

Here's an affecting glimpse into a story of fatherhood.

Without you, would I still be reaching out for myself now?

Did you hear about the candidate who grabbed Hugh’s dick?

My grandfather has a space where the tip of his thumb should be.

Soon I will walk up those same back steps the police took by force.

Please look away from Mars dangling so angry in so much darkness.

He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.

Atomic bomb. How could those two words be said together?

Close mist around window. I attempt gender. Deposit each letter.

You knelt down to kiss her, avoiding, of course, the wound at her brow.

I wanted to tear away at the fabric of my pants, dig open my skin.

The human heart is far more intricate than any single term can describe.

He’s in the back of the cop car, hands in handcuffs, shaped like infinity.