Our Fatal Flaws
“It was like my whole world filtered through a telescope when I knew you, all I needed was to look your way to think, yes, everything else is far and unimportant.”
Suburban Meditation
“What I wanted to do was ask her if she knew how good she had it: white and pretty and well-to-do and having friends made by her parents from the very beginning.”
After a Certain Number of Leagues
“You’ve said I remind you of those deep water high stress fish: cakey eyes, headlights that make sense in pitch nothing but when taken to surface explode.”
Bonsai
The first stone was one I knew. Flaking and grey and dusty. A driveway stone – from my driveway. Who breaks a person’s dining room window with a stone from that same person’s driveway?
Permanence of Refugee Camps
“He comes to the edge of the water every day in the early afternoon, he said. Last Thursday, nothing would bite.”
The Myth of the Mason-Dixon Line
“Don’t make deals with the Devil when you don’t know what you have. Check your pockets first. Take inventory.”
Dear Asia
“I want to tell you that you are magical. You are special. You are neat.”
Fuzzhead
“The very first thing he felt was a dulled twinge of fear that breathing seemed to take so much exceptional effort, but even that was killed off very quickly.”