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I should call my loves while I can to listen to the grackles croak.

When she gets to Lenny’s he offers her a beer and a bong hit...

“I don’t care how tired we are. I’m not not having sex on my wedding night.”

The strange man expected to be picked up by aliens during the eclipse.

It seemed to her that they only ever touched each other in transient, sudden ways.

His beauty comes from his power. I am as wary as I am drawn to it.

Definitely believe what you hear about the problems with painkillers.

A dead body leaned sideways against a wall. Its eyes were open.

References to and portrayals of hypocrisy, moral sloth, venery.

Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.

They all pivoted to face us, tan mannequins on a conveyor belt.

He bound me to blind obedience, for which I’d shown a propensity.

Neither fame nor wealth could provide consolation for life’s brevity.

He knew what those friends were worth: he knew the girls too.

Professor Flacks could tell you everything about James Joyce.

The angel lay in his body effervescent as a flake of alabaster.

If life is an open vein, what’s brave about a sleeve-heart, sweetheart?

Your words will strike her heart like Saint Teresa’s flaming arrow.

Rebecca Lehmann

My “lonelymaking.” Also known as my horrible secret, continent-wide.

I never felt heart stop or skin burn, just the first split second of sound.

He had looked on it a thousand times and it never failed to kill him.

I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.

I will tell you about the sick. They are ruthless, they are like Attila.

I repeated the name thoughtfully, then said no, I didn’t think I knew her.

Craig Bueltel

All I could focus on was if he was going to ask me to date him.

Men came over carrying lanterns and pulled away the chunks of ice.

The sense all along has been that there’s some madness in her.