Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.
Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles.
First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers,
But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the F...
At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low.
Life is an argument with the world over time.
World. They didn’t need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn’t be shaped into what they were not. The
To the empty space usually reserved for Valentine.
The reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude.
Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional issues.
When the music started and the dancing commenced, they appreciated the extent of their gratitude for Jockey. Once again he picked the right day for a birthday. He had been attuned to a shared tension,...
Well, imagine you are alone in a room. The lights are down low, you’ve got some scented candles going. Soothing New Age tunes, nothing too druid-chanty, seep out of the hi-fi to gently massage your ce...
Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day.
There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track. The
Take it out on each other if you cannot take it out on the ones who deserve it.
Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains.
Problem was, even if you avoided trouble, trouble might reach out and snatch you anyway. Another student might sniff out a weakness and start something, one of the staff dislikes your smile and knocks...
Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them...
No, Fulton was colored. She understands this luminous truth. Natchez did not lie about that: she has seen it in the man’s books, made plain by her new literacy. In the last few days she has learned ho...