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The Bodyexpand_moreHe handed us sticks of dynamite, rolled in wax paper like taffy.
Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.
I woke in surprise to your breath warm as your skin on my neck.
Your mother still glows with a smoothness that you envy.
She was no man’s dark dream, only a girl forced to swim half-clothed.
“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.
This storm scares me. A foreign climate occupies the land.
I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.
He only told the world what the world wanted to hear from a guy who graduated from Harvard.
Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.
Sneaking was one thing, entering a bar with a someone else’s ID another.
I forgot to detail that the jumper leapt from beside the hanging Monet.
I managed to talk sensible Alice into a little pink outfit and high heels.
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.
The little door would appear in my mind’s eye, except that now it was ajar.
The noiseless trees, the insentient breezes that are not there.
I lost myself in their minds: for the moment I actually became them.
Stop her there, on the bank of knowingness, just before spring.
She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.
The features of the girl in the bathing suit suggest a mixed-race origin.
What would make a sane person want to watch such blood sport?
I wait for the one thing that will change my life to arrive in the mail.
He was last in Calcutta more than fifteen years ago, for his mother’s funeral. Han Ru feels something vaguely discomfiting, followed by a surge of recognition.
In the rooms you picked up what you liked, like shells on a beach.
We were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.
Joanie’s face was something she’d borrowed from Miró, from Picasso.
My friend Angela, who is also my roommate, got me into stripping.
