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Mothersexpand_moreThe coverage of the state funeral, black horse bearing an empty saddle.
What’s left is a thumbhouse, an inch of gristle inside skin walls.
The world seemed newly made and filled with a frightening silence.
When the population was whiter, they fawned over the Korean.
They retire for the night, he to his bedroom and she to hers. What of it?
Morie Johnson was successful. I am not a hooker. I am only a thief.
Some types of pain are just too deep to touch, are better left alone.
I drank every night until late and drew earth-shaking conclusions.
“No, no,” we say. “We’re fine! Really! We love things just the way they are!”
Today the game was to try to catch one of the cats in a pillowcase.
Here is where you touch the world and here are the words to feel its heat.
What I really meant to say is that I am tired. Beauty can demand so much.
The door opened, and Dan stormed in, shouting, “Motherfuckers!”
You couldn’t believe what the rhododendrons do around here.
Her mother is a locked door with another door behind it.
I was only five when Dad told me I had died. “You drowned,” he said.
All my life I wondered what it is to vanish like a ring of smoke.
Rain falls steadily, rattling down drainpipes and gurgling into gutters.
“Wanna give it a go?” my brother asks, nudging me with his 12-gauge.
Her husband is away at the family cabin, and she is glad for the space.
Mama would say beware of the little flaws that make one homely.
Amy put her arm around his shoulders. My boy. Isn’t he wonderful?
His eyes always astonish her. Iridescent blue, flecked with black. Her husband was gone, two years later than she should’ve thrown him out.
A small circle of friends and family babysat so she could go to school.
We need to stop talking about it, we need to put some pants on.
The Others came in the light of day and splayed Father open.
Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.
She had yellow cat eyes that she insisted were also blond.
Louise watched from the shadow. She was looking for somewhere to land.
