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There’s something about traveling by plane. People tell their secrets.

One of the most important human capacities is compassion.

He ached to move into and out of her body and make her feel him fiercely.

I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.

Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?

Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

If he wanted to kiss Sophie tonight, he probably shouldn’t steal from her.

There’s no studying for this. I think souls must exist in wanted things.

“Is that your banana?” the short cop asked her.

Each Kardashian is completely capable of being alone at night.

This comb smells like tea gone cold, weighs less than a vein pumped full.

“This is no vacation,” I told friends and reluctant donors.

They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.

Their eyes met from time to time. I thought about what I could tell her.

we stiletto back to floodlit stages and boy flesh / stripped sequins

Virginia surprises herself: she wants this warmth, wants skin and breath.

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.

Whatever was wrong with his brain, he could still smell her skin.

You know that sex isn’t everything. It’s time to get a move on.

He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.

I’m a slave to the question what kind of music would ever dare leave you.

I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.

There was one lease Homer Young wanted above all others.

First a mother puts her child to sleep, then the other way around.

After her divorce she took up with a cowboy named Wicks.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.

the woman wiped her hands on her apron saying “lord these children”

No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.