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At the moment we were having that conversation, she already knew.

On the anniversary of your death, a memory sharpens, as if illuminated.

Arnold’s daily life was a race between money and death.

They peer into their mirrors to see whatever is bearing down.

You could not look at Leila for long, and yet you longed to look at her.

You could not look at Leila for long, and yet you longed to look at her.

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

The place your truest self inhabited was the place you could not bear.

People only see that side of him. He is still a boy, learning to be a man.

Saint Clark, halo and all, patron of wildlife shows and the cigarette tax.

I wanted to forget my parents’ slow dying together in Ohio.

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

An in-depth audio interview with Ann Beattie on her writing.

I put out my lips, and we kissed through the newly painted fence.

Being with Kate was like a circuit connecting, lighting everything up.

No salt tears, and a continent between her ashes and Father’s.

Bo could live with his contradictions. They were what made him whole.

Of course the despicable wretch would beg her to forgive him again.

The school’s committed to an all-sterile facility by the year 2025.

A high roller gave her money to stay in his room for the weekend.

To enter the dust of their bedroom, to stand invisible on the plush carpet.

Heat heat and the sky a flame of sapphire, even rocks blazing.

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

Early on, Castro learned and opposed the unfairness of things.

It was just what it was. Sex with someone who was not her husband.

“It’s out of the question. It’s a waste of your time. And my money.”

And so it was clear that Mia was still basically a teenager.

Mostly, 90 percent of the time, the big ones trigger the bad attacks.

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