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Parenthoodexpand_moreThe caved-in storefront looked as if a missile had slammed into it.
Lorena hummed inside her mind, anticipating daybreak.
There was a dry snap inside the door of the safe. “There it is.”
Tirelessly her arm rose and fell, till the child at last fell at her feet.
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.
If, on your deathbed, you want to watch a movie, don’t let me pick.
“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”
She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.
Mafia didn’t like me, except for the tickling game. It went like this.
Once she had loved him. When had she stopped? She did not know.
He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.
We chose to stay in the brutality of that night, even as the girls walked away.
The pain lithified to numbness, and she recalled the time of his courtship.
The first time the world demanded more of me, I was twenty-nine.
It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
He glowered even as a little child. Maybe because he has your bad eyes.
I hold out hands, empty and poor like a beggar by the temple door.
Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it!
She asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you can do with your body?”
Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.
His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.
The cat was looking at me with an intelligent expression. It knew.
Nothing likes to be abandoned, no one likes to be compared.
All the bears in the zoo look pathetic. Their eyes glazed, bodies lethargic.
