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Struggling to find my budget hotel, my stress rose as the sun faded.

“Look down,” I said, comb in hand. “Let me check behind your ears.”

They tried to kill us, my sisters, mother, and me; I still have the scars.

I am drawn to these victims because I was there the night they were killed.

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

When the coach called again, Wayne felt his temper slipping.

“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.

They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.

I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.

“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.

There’s being young and growing old, being here and being gone.

Here’s the part where you pledge devotion until death, I told myself.

He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

X wants, but Y gets in the way: the equation of desire and obstacle.

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

Until now the man had not really lived, but simply existed, to be sure.

No-Horse sucked his lips, imagined the taste of the white girls’ hips.

I could become something new. Improved. Like detergent.

Rebecca beheld the sword which was suspended over her people.

My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.

The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”

Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.

Any society that fails to protect its children is in terminal decline.

He handed us sticks of dynamite, rolled in wax paper like taffy.

Hannah Sarvasy

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

“I mean it, Martín. I won’t marry a man with a bald lip, like a boy.”

The child is too perfect to be human; too perfect, truthfully, to exist.

I have heard stories of the river, how people were willing to die to cross it.