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Descent jumps and jostles, nausea drops me back to the floodplain.

Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.

What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?

Well, back home has really changed, you won’t get that same bammy.

Richard Bausch

1908. The puppet’s name is Sambo. Oh what a friendly boy he looks to be!

The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.

Tobias Wolff

You have to be three times better than the white kids, at everything.

It was to keep us impartial and to protect us from threats and bribes.

The shapes called them bastard loads. The lazy creations of fools.

This so far is a haunting, the bleeding heart we used to hear about.

In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters.

He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.

The thing was, I didn’t care what I ate in front of a woman. Every day, I told her things I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone else.

In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.

He probably had an order. Ludes, Dexis, Black Birds—who knew.

Soledad is the name a woman is given, a sentence a woman must serve.

Try to make order in one direction, and things shoot off in another.

The sight of her belly ring and the smooth, tight canopy of flesh.

For eight weeks no one heard my voice for eight weeks no one slept.

He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.

Son, do you know of shame? Then you must know that I cannot feel it.

Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.

A man jostles my stride to the street, no shoulder on which to move.

Ghost still pace Georgia, hungry for babies, for husbands.

They drink hard liquor and growl about which musicians are hot.

It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.

“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”