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He studies their mannerisms, looking for clues to the psycho spirit.

They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.

In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.

It had taken Thursdale seven years to form this fine talent.

Every man in the Humvee had the same red eyes and cracked lips. Nothing in Iraq stayed simple once men had to do it.

The students usually didn’t look up to see who was serving them.

Some people you come across you come to love. He was one of them.

The flail is raised high, back bent in echo of the boys’ backs.

When I saw her, I was witness and weapon both, charging at her.

Each harbored a sense that a family of three was not a real family.

Despite seeing the other knockoffs, I hoped my dress would be perfect.

More and more whiskey was required to knock out the elephant.

Here’s the part where you pledge devotion until death, I told myself.

We looked at each other beneath a London sky, on a Zeppelin night.

He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.

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How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.

They dust off facts like diamonds that excel in perfection under a monocle.

I saw Les gazing up at me. And that’s when I made my mistake.

My country neither interested me nor inspired any sense of fealty.

“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

The field wants to stretch the hours, wants to be empty for us.

I uttered words I will regret to my last breath, which is already near.

Lorena hummed inside her mind, anticipating daybreak.

A body must learn again how to accept the proprietorial hands of a lover.

What was he, twenty, no, twenty-two years younger than me.