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Life Choicesexpand_moreHands that have waved farewell, sooner or later I will see them again.
She’s innocent, guilty of nothing but the need to be admired.
Recently a man in my town took up residence on the football field.
After days of torture in secret prisons, they were about to let him go.
My husband screws around. Not much and not often, but I know.
“Folks need other folks, that’s all I mean. Especially here in the Ohio.”
It’s all good,” Mila says, meaning, it’s so not, her voice glass-like.
This is what he must have felt when she told him about her affair.
So long as there was money, the girl felt established, and brutally proud.
The Human Comedy: Four new six-word stories by Sherman Alexie.
These six-worders work in a strict three-act structure, like screenplays.
I can already feel the stone’s resistance as I work the first pass.
Rebecca beheld the sword which was suspended over her people.
His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.
Gurov reflected, “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.”
“We have heard that this blackened smear is art. We do not see it.”
My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.
We backed up and I kept ripping it at his face, trying to knock his teeth out.
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
Even if he lost her he would never disparage her, never not love her.
Now, with new orders to carry out, he’d been restored to factory settings.
Clark and Robertson got a reset, and Tuyen would get a baby. But Mikey?
L’chaim. To lives both bygone and ongoing, and to the truths I choose to believe.
I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.
Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.
Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.
The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.
I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.
