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Relationshipsexpand_moreI saw myself, and for the first time, I didn’t look away.
The sex in these fantasies was always a product of love.
We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.
Her appearances are fleeting, a gust of air, a murmur in the night.
She was the idiot who fell in love with some high-class gigolo.
He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.
Since the accident she lost her hold on the world and never got it back.
Hearing the baby’s cry, Varka finds the enemy who is crushing her heart.
In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.
Teddy, the new sous chef, is on fire again. It’s the second time in a week. I make a silent promise to myself never to have sex on a beach, not even with Ryan Gosling.
We’re all trying, in our own ways, to parse what we may have done wrong.
On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.
Mr. Holt had grown old since Beverly last saw him. He looked weary.
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens her first rose
When I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.
Maybe all of it was possible. Maybe it all could work out.
It was half the Spanish he knew—stop, I have a shotgun.
My children, children, remember to let me go, delete my number.
I grip the handlebar and pin my eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable crash.
She pulls quickly on her cigarette and blows it at me through the phone.
I want to dispute that depression is by definition pathological.
The ego with which we began filters away as love accumulates below.
Both Sherlock Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.
For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air.
It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”
She is a stalk, exhausted. She will surround these bones with flesh.
