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Life Choicesexpand_moreAll my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.
In high school I walked around with a beat-up copy of Kafka’s stories.
Out by the road was her son standing without a stitch of clothing.
He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.
Since the accident she lost her hold on the world and never got it back.
Grandma was forced to break her vow of silence only three times.
She imagines his clothes on the floor, his arms wrapped around her waist.
I hope I do not baffle or bluff. I hope I will not raise your hopes.
I should look at what I’ve done. How loosely she let him come to me.
Her will is resolute, and he knows enough not to challenge it.
The clearest memory was when his father shot a grizzly.
The thing was, I didn’t care what I ate in front of a woman. Every day, I told her things I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone else.
In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.
He probably had an order. Ludes, Dexis, Black Birds—who knew.
Don’t hitchhike the Mediterranean coast of Algeria in the summer of ’71.
Books covered every available surface and much of the floor.
If you’re going to take a degree, take one from the best school you can.
Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.
The clown has taken a seat at our veranda table in absolute silence.
I could shoot you and nobody would say boo. I’m within my rights.
His thoughts swirl around him. Maybe women aren’t women anymore.
On Christmas Day, we lost one of our great advocates for poetry.
The sight of her belly ring and the smooth, tight canopy of flesh.
My father left me in the car while he was grabbing one for the road.
On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.
You might say I acted on instinct. All I wanted was to stop the screaming.
Does he not see our likeness? Fursten seemed to see nothing.
You go out larking with a neatly mustached man.
Then a darker realization shook him: he’d left Jason at the bottom of the steps, alone.
I looked up from the cave floor to see a guy pointing a handgun at us.
