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- He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…
- She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.…
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub…
- Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison…
- I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
- At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could…
- And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
- She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
- The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly…
- Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
- People grow up by living.
- I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is…
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