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Gender & Sexualityexpand_moreFrom the roof, my husband observed daily a man and a woman having sex.
She pulls quickly on her cigarette and blows it at me through the phone.
The consensus was that all the great writers drank way too much.
It was a Tuesday, so they made love. She thought it was a fair compromise.
I’m still in love with this filthy city, but now I know Berlin's love isn’t free.
I could page the women’s voices in their velvet bags bound with string.
It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.
It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.
“I might surprise you,” Mr. Maxi said. Polly hoped he’d go all out.
I walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own.
Don’t tell him you’re a virgin, says Peggy. You’ll freak him out.
We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.
They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.
Draw me a map of your agonies, all the missing rivers you dried.
Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?
He said, every night you close the store, I watch you walk to your car.
A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.
Darla has come to the monument to fight against her mind.
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
On that still, snowy day, Mick’s neck popped like a flaming log.
This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.
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.
Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you’re in bed with
a relative.
The face of love is a poem I am writing in an air-conditioned room.
Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.