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Her voice smelled like an orange, though I’d never peeled an orange.

Overnight, somebody had dumped a dead pit bull in the trash bin.

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The person was seeing his printed face superimposed over his real one.

“The rattlesnakes glow in the dark, man. You should see them.”

Phuong feared that she was nothing but a regret born into flesh.

He will, no doubt, be out of this house soon, headed over to Montgomery.

Elsewhere, perhaps here too, regimes stagger, a congress ends.

The stars begin to turn clockwise, freeing us of all consequences.

In the school smock, I looked like an angel in search of her crèche.

When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

We had run out of every necessity. You name it, we didn’t have it.

They plant whispers where shouts incinerate into hisses.

Through the dark, we say, through the dark: but do we ever really know?

What excuse did I use to pick a fight with that arrogant poet?

You know what you’ve come looking for you probably won’t find.

Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.

Her biggest secret was Jay Currie—her white American boyfriend.

Here, Min Jin reads from her novel at Narrative Night, New York City.

You don’t know what it’s like to be so hungry that you’d steal to eat.

At Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau clicks like on the “Wilderness” page.

“If you love freedom so much, you shouldn’t think about going back.”

Like lions in cages, women like me dream . . . of freedom . . .

We crossed the length of Iran to reach a lake so big they called it a sea.

The meeting hall of their bodies piled on lawns caked with dying birds.

Tobias Wolff reading two stories aloud: "Say Yes" and "Her Dog."

At 35,000 feet, the center of heaven, in the deep Milky Way, we meet.

I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.

Lie down & whisper all your careless dreams into my votive ear.