An incomplete list:No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No...
Adulthood's full of ghosts. . . . I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected...
Was nice to take a quick break from the end of the world—and
Adulthood’s full of ghosts. I’m sorry, I’m not sure I quite— I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? T...
There is only here, she told herself, there is only this house.
The painted forest collapsed into folds and fell soundlessly to the pavement.
On two separate occasions he’s told people in Los Angeles that he’s from Canada and they’ve asked about igloos. An allegedly well-educated New Yorker once listened carefully to his explanation of wher...
Love is like the lion's tooth.
But what made It bearable were the friendships, of course, the camaraderie and the music and the Shakespeare, the moments of transcendent beauty and joy when it didn't matter who'd used the last of th...
The bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a parking lot in the mys...
The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.
Miranda, he said. How long has it been? This seemed to her a silly question. She’d assumed, she realized, that everyone remembers the date of their divorce, the same way everyone remembers their weddi...
I’ve heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It’s not an uncommon occupation.
Standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who w...
Trinity bomb test in
They resumed their cautious progress
There was something obnoxious, he thought, in people who introduced themselves by their surnames while calling one by one's first.
Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.
THERE WAS A MOMENT ON EARTH, improbable in retrospect and actually briefer than a moment in the span of human history, more like the blink of an eye, when it was possible to make a living solely by ph...