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Women & Menexpand_moreJoanna Walsh
How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.
He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.
My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.
“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”
I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.
Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.
He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.
Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.
What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.
It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.
Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.
Every voice an epitaph, and then a little tune from the neighbor’s yard.
Loved this little portal to my past so much that I went looking for others.
“Some men’re like that. They have to see what they’re missing.”
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
I wanted to ask what her secret was but I was too busy knitting socks.
I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.
On that still, snowy day, Mick’s neck popped like a flaming log.
She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.
“Folks need other folks, that’s all I mean. Especially here in the Ohio.”
This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.
So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.
El Presidente was no longer in a mood to see the American press.
At straight-up noon, the honeymoon was ruined, one day in.
The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.
These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.
