She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in b...
Be wary of what I might learn. No. Do you think I should? I don’t know. Maybe, she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed do...
Some are just businessmen.
And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.
But if you are a person who needs no one’s approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.
Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel, he says.
It’s a terrible era when idiots are allowed to govern the blind,
Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape
Vernissage
Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick....
I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.
He moved quickly away from her through the ring, his whole body starting forward with the big animal in two-point and then -- the horse's legs extended before and behind her, a carousel pony but real,...
Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly,
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans.
But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence...
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Gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism
Children are resilient, Anise said, simultaneously agreeing with her friend and cutting her off. But often their wounds simply remain invisible until, all at once, whatever is festering there becomes...
This was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue,...
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow po...