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“Tell me how it felt”—he narrows his eyes—“when you first saw her.”

The mistake you make with this man is, you wait around for him.

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

Tana Wozcjuk

Her father is important in his village and has three wives.

And the bearers of moderate gifts leap on buses and jam all the doorways, disappear into courtyards that gape.

“Then I can promise to kill either of you if I ever see you again.”

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

Diane Kirsten Martin

What was happening? All she wants is for Teddy to fuck her silly.

Every morning I wipe the sweat from the hollow of my master’s throat.

“You are too young for politics, too beautiful for a jail cell.”

God doesn’t punish wrongdoing. Rewards multiply if tended to in secret.

The story of a date over dinner—all in six words.

Their hands were acting as airfoils, producing lift, not drag.

Anne Marie Rooney

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

She holds the shirt to her face and inhales. With a start she pulls away.

My husband barely noticed, while I felt the sharp bite of her words.

“There’s got to be some way through this,” he says, “without losing her.”

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

The waitress looked us over, wondering, I guess, if we were famous.

Do you really want to live in this filth? And me answering, Well, yes.

It wasn’t so long ago I carried my tiny son piggyback through the woods.

Home, I thought. This was the new country I had been yearning for.

“That pool,” Kenny said, breathing harder. “I’m telling you, it’s magic.”

Lynette had stepped on something sharp. There was blood.

“Why, Ma? I don’t understand. I just don’t want you to be alone.”

The surface of night is disrupted. Ripples cross the neighborhood.

She was laughing. Something animal in me was sparked, and I chased her.