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When she sleeps, Shakespeare writes one more sonnet we’ll never read.

There was a glint of cold red light out there, on the other shore of the lake.

To resist him, I danced how he wanted, but made a mockery of it.

I grew accustomed to seeing the sun rise and set from the school.

Keely finally stops crying when they step outside. The shock of cold.

I could not tell what visions were vanishing in the dying slave.

The dead children were wheeled away, covered with white sheets.

She gives her daughter her birth certificate and oil money: Go.

Reader, you and I stand once more before the borderless.

Your intelligence and charisma would serve you well in life.

We couldn’t tell which of us was a girl or a boy we gorged on dirt.

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

Maybe she’s gay. I wonder if she masturbates when I’m out of the room.

“It’s true I wanted an adventure, but I had a different kind in mind.”

We loaded the packs and started down, into the bluing of dusk.

Three fingers had been cut from her right hand, two from her left.

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

Be glad the numbness in your legs isn’t reading on your face.

The store was one of his last-ditch efforts to make a pile of money.

“I’m looking for a Mr. Miller,” he said. “I was told I might find him here.”

“Why don’t you call yourself Butterfly?” he said. “A pretty thing like you.”

My parents had seven children; some of us have bank accounts.

I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.

On her tongue was a wick and her body was invented a nation of lice.

That’s what I want, to feel terrified, excited, and free, all at once.

I stood there, wishing the ground would open up and swallow me.

You see, I plan on remaining here as the most foolish god in the world.

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

Do the work. Every day. Take a step back and see if you love it.