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He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.

All we knew from my father was that my sister had to be cut from her car.

This is not America! It is not the America I grew up in, it’s
a joke.

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.

A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.

If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.

They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.

When the coach called again, Wayne felt his temper slipping.

We shall still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead.

“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.

However hard I trudge and search I cannot find the hills I have climbed.

“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.

Each harbored a sense that a family of three was not a real family.

He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.

“Go watch the showgirls, Roy,” said Chino. “It’s educational.”

He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.

“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.

Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.

He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.

I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.

So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.

The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.

These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.

I went for a natural, “I look pretty even when I’m giving birth,” look.

I have three girls from my previous marriages, but she beats them all.

It’s all that I have left of “the old country,” as my mother calls it.

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