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Journeysexpand_moreI reviewed the rules for myself, among them: stay in the moment.
My mother hoped moving would erase the affair with a married man.
Our crowns are made of dead hair and get swept out with the trash.
All down my street the new fathers beat the kingness out of the kings.
She does not know within a decade she will unload a slug into her mouth.
The men here don’t know where to place me, call me exotic grail.
Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.
The appetite for self-surrender is nothing new in our makeup.
I halt and watch a monk, under plum boughs, sweeping flitting shreds.
Trailblazers we celebrate. Those outcasts, outliers, and outlaws.
Pale dust clung to their skin like the lime he had thrown on the dead.
Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.
Those trees—each an epoch with its origin and history, rising into night.
For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
“Refuge,” Nina said, tilting her head back; it was a word she learned.
She had learned that it was easy to get Sylvi to do things.
Descent jumps and jostles, nausea drops me back to the floodplain.
Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.
Hemorrhages, it was thought, do not appear for no reason.
Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.
Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.
The roads have come to an end now, they don’t go any farther.
Any invented quotation, played with confidence, can deceive.
What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?
Throwing the El Camino into drive, he roared down the mountain road.
Michelle dances on his forehead like an imp, like an illness in motion.
By the end of my trip to St. Thomas, I had discovered a reason to live.
Kids were just let out of school to spend the summer running in packs.
Had he been a man, we could’ve saved his life right then and there.
She alone knew how he could be swept up, tender interior laid bare.
