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The Kid came back from the post trader’s store with a six-shooter.

“With me for an uncle you don’t never need to be afraid of him, baby.”

We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.

We wanna play Nintendo till it’s dark out and can’t, the grid’s down.

There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

Ron Carlson

I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

No fountains to quench the thirst between rounds of tag.

Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.

It was a Saturday night in November when his diagnosis finally came.

She is eight years old and doesn’t recognize the word divorce.

Years they sought her, whose crew left on the water a sad Welsh hymn.

The girl began to dance again, throwing her arms from side to side.

The moment in your drunk when you become rich! A connoisseur.

She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.

We chose to stay in the brutality of that night, even as the girls walked away.

I understood that for us there would be no mourning the shortstop.

When he kisses me, my heart flutters in my chest like swarming bees.

After nearly a year of dating, I never stopped thinking of that other boy.

He was warm that way, always tender, and maybe that’s the worst part.

Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.

No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.

Forgive my father, the promise that he made, that I could turn all this to gold.

“Hey, you look lost,” the hunter had said. “You better come with me.”

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.