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Family & Ancestorsexpand_moreMy mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
She could not have known how uncannily she resembled me.
It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.
Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.
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.
We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.
“He’s a mad dog on a chain. You don’t stick your fingers in his mouth.”
He whispers words that sound as miraculous as the skinned fish of the clouds my father writhed like pentecostal snakes while he drove drunk
She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.
Ron Carlson
The child is too perfect to be human; too perfect, truthfully, to exist.
He only told the world what the world wanted to hear from a guy who graduated from Harvard.
Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and was still unmarried.
It had been four weeks and five days since she confronted him.
He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.
I had to prepare. I had to be able to save us from what was coming.
She must know she was a mistake, what they call now a surprise.
The features of the girl in the bathing suit suggest a mixed-race origin.
She could not remember what Past and Present stood for.
If your father were here, he wouldn’t put up with your insolence.
He was last in Calcutta more than fifteen years ago, for his mother’s funeral. Han Ru feels something vaguely discomfiting, followed by a surge of recognition.
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.
It almost makes you cry, to know that you are no longer needed.
