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No one answered. I turned to his parents. My stomach felt on fire.

Raw, glistening—god’s design. Her newborn flesh-on-the-bone.

It comes as no surprise that everything is flying toward one point.

Anytime I drifted off I wished to wake up against a cold, silent body.

I open the gift: a small ocelot, its mouth a cave, pearl teeth waiting.

Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.

“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”

I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.

A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.

The plant’s root must be cut cleanly. Not too close to the bulb.

You don’t feel anything when they cut you, not at first, just the blood.

“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.

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.

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

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

You can always tell the military folk by their even stance, their steady gaze.

I told kids I didn’t feel a thing there anymore, but it was a lie.

Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.

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

Delighted to be there, celestial together, as high as you get.

Over salad, the Frenchman asked me about work and what I did.

“I know, I know, I shouldn’t have done it, but they had it coming.”

I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.

You know how good she has always been at hiding herself.

The Kid came back from the post trader’s store with a six-shooter.

My mother’s city and I were both named after an assassinated king.