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Children were driven by deep yearnings that should be satisfied.

In the thickening smoke the workers clawed and flailed at one another.

three women came in their nakedness so i could choose from among them

Hemingway’s Royal typewriter sat atop a volume of Who’s Who.

I want to step out into sun to scintillate for waves to come and spray.

The problem, as it turned out, is: Forever can be surprisingly short.

The car is only a couple years old, but its memory taps into the past.

“Well, it’s a dark world, Suzanne. She’s old enough to know that.”

That piece of flesh you’re with is a high school student, a minor.

Jack picked me up in a car with a greasy-potato sex smell.

He was caught. Of course he was caught. He was always caught.

The mountains out your window make Central Park feel rinky-dink.

What is greater: the distance between these bodies, or their need?

Her wide and vicious mouth blossomed into a savage smile.

He could not stop marveling at the velvet quality of
her skin.

The palm’s outline shimmied in the sunlight against the aqua curtain.

I saw the man for the first time in Budapest on the Széchenyi Bridge.

I’m not the girl for anyone. I can’t just go be a wife.

Eliza Frye

What’s wrong with easy? I mean, who wants sex to be hard work?

After seventeen years we’re parting ways. Breakups hurt, even this one.

We work to house the water yet know we cannot keep anything.

She pictures her suitcase covered in blood, wishing for anything to happen.

Any white man without a servant was presumed to be in need of help.

When the thugs from the bank showed, up my father laughed.

We were aiming for a complete transformation of society.

I could feel the floor’s slight pitch. We were in for a long, long voyage.

He doesn’t have to lie about oatmeal. That’s the way things are for him.

“We must also buy twenty acres or so. Life is becoming impossible.”

He begins to realize that the impossible event may well be about to occur.