Taylor clapped three times for attention. Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is s...
Tell him I went to the lavatory, Evie said with a roll of her eyes. Men are pos-i-tute-ly paralyzed by the mention of females in lavatories.
The truth was, she was afraid that when she fell hard for a boy, she’d lose herself along the way. She’d seen it happen to lots of girls. They’d go from drinking gin, driving fast cars, and boldly shi...
Why had this power come to me? I can scarcely govern myself. At times, I feel as if I could dance through the halls with happiness, and then, just as suddenly, my thoughts are dark and lost and fright...
That's some moonStop talking about my ass, you beast.
They’re too tired for bathing, but they’re not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to m...
You evah hear of a magic screw?'I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in...
The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall.
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.
When it is time for me to visit Brigid, I find her awake in her little room. That's awl righ', luv. I don' care to forget, if it's all the same, she says, and there are no rowan leaves at her window a...
The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, cr...
The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.
They’d never discussed how to find one’s place in the world, never talked of fathers and sons, or what makes someone a man. No. He and Will spoke in newspaper articles about ghosts. They conversed thr...
The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?
This is what they have in place of freedom—time and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite...
The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate w...
The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.
These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.
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