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Friends & Enemiesexpand_moreTheir eyes met from time to time. I thought about what I could tell her.
No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.
No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.
Whatever was wrong with his brain, he could still smell her skin.
These men don’t ask me to remove my scarf, even though it’s mid-July.
Frank Avery came into the kitchen. In his left hand he carried a .22 pistol.
She has beautiful cheekbones, but her eyes are nearly colorless.
I became a realist the moment they tied a brick to my balls.
There was one lease Homer Young wanted above all others.
After her divorce she took up with a cowboy named Wicks.
“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”
I take a sip of Turkish coffee and wrinkle my nose, like a baby.
For Henry Moore there is not only the best day but the worst.
I’m going to cut me some ham and wait for death to lace his boots.
When I speak and wave my arms, it sniffs the air and watches me.
She was so beautiful and sweet to us. I remember she laughed a lot.
she had big eyes, the better to see right through a person.
Welcome, little citizen. Lend me your presence, and I’ll lend you mine.
I felt that Teddy occupied a range below acceptability, even among boys.
Live Dangerously! If you get hurt, the suffering will bring a new being.
A goddam mean big sonofabitch boar rooted me in the stomach.
“Just sex,” I say, and the old feeling is back, the creeping nausea.
We crunch through the snow in the predawn blue-black cold. He tells me about the stars: Vega, Betelgeuse, Arcturus, Rigel.
He sobbed; he said he would go to therapy, stop drinking.
He saw the car bearing down and gave it the finger, a snarl on his face.
Liz wore a brass wedding ring, and had no marriage certificate to show.
A woman from the next table eyed him and he eyed her right back.
You’d imagined yourself in the doorway, giving her a knowing look.
She confessed to Judd that she saw other men. She liked a good time.
She stopped, turned toward him, placed her hand on his chest.
