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I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

The boy in the woods was a secret. My secret. My first real secret.

I didn’t know that by falling for you, I was falling for your demons too.

There’s something about traveling by plane. People tell their secrets.

He ached to move into and out of her body and make her feel him fiercely.

I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.

they released themselves so knowingly into the soft wet air

Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

This comb smells like tea gone cold, weighs less than a vein pumped full.

I want to bring the duality of us together, not spar with language.

The irreversible ink stain breaking the face of whatever we skate on.

They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.

I will have to remember the man’s hooded eyes as he watches.

I never prayed before. Since this happened I’ve been praying every night.

Virginia surprises herself: she wants this warmth, wants skin and breath.

It was a very strange dinner. I didn’t dare ask my parents questions.

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

Instead of attunement, I was given a pair of size 6 Toughskins.

These men don’t ask me to remove my scarf, even though it’s mid-July.

My sister says, vicious as possible, “Don’t you dare try to protect me.”

He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.

The city is lit with all its lights. I’m up in the air. It is yes until I die.

I’m a slave to the question what kind of music would ever dare leave you.

All afternoon it rains on the traffic outside my window. It’s nothing new.

I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.

“I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re the same person,” she says.

He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.

Your voice on the phone, a gesundt in dein keppel you blessed my head.

My first girl, only sixteen year and she go, she run away to you.

You’re safe here. A prison might be the safest place to meet a man.