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Relationshipsexpand_moreJennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
Time stops as the ball rolls tantalizingly around the rim.
I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.
You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.
Eavan’s death was catastrophic, leaving us all wanting more.
Below, the kiss silently maneuvers our bodies closer to the rose bed.
Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”
The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?
The house of our relationship is a fort. Blanket fort. Tree fort.
The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.
It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.
Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.
He always talked of making money with the air of a connoisseur.
Ron Carlson
Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and was still unmarried.
I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.
He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.
She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.
In the rooms you picked up what you liked, like shells on a beach.
It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
When he kisses me, my heart flutters in my chest like swarming bees.
This would not be a wooing meal. I was cooking my man into submission.
There would be no one to live for; she would live for herself.
Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.
We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.
In the backyard I submerge myself in a bathtub of soil, soak with the hose.
She’d seen snakes before, but she’d never really looked at one, until now.
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.
