the rest of us, either because they hold too much light, or because they’re already halfway to another ... eat that,” she’d say. “It’s too sweet.” She drank her coffee black. Together they did the ... of it all. The strangers, for the most part, didn’t even get angry—they listened and nodded, and in ...
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making. I see a few black birds, I don't really know their type, but I notice they're ... real life. You know, like those dreams where you're walking into a school building and someone ... not afraid of us. Here we come with all our gear and our feet making a racket, and they just stand ...
falls asleep again, dreaming. My head aches. I need to jump out of bed. The room is too hot, too stuffy. ... landlady's furniture sneering at us, soft hissing laughs. Since my operation I don't sleep well. My ... something I should always "catch up on"; it is like my career, awaiting me mysteriously, ...
anything, you know. You’re a young woman. Don’t you want a life of your own?” “This isn’t about me. You’re ... vacation to Key West with Uncle Bart. Surely they’re downing piña coladas for us all. Alison is an angel. ... Alison, or any other doctor, says. Meanwhile, all is well enough, my sweet girl. Your mother thinks of you ...
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like them. It had drawn together Rose's brother and herself-But that conversation was all too ... her eyes with intensity. Rose thought at first he would say something touching or worri some, about ... to shout at him and re veal the fact that she was afraid now that it had all been a lie, a test ...
mother tongue being Arabic or Berber or something else entirely. Except for the manager, they were all ... subject. But his mother puts a hand on the boy’s arm and says, They’re waiting for their chance. A stroke ... sounds like whispering. He can’t hear what they’re saying, but the tension of their words floats above ...
circles toward the ceiling. “You’re up,” Ceylan says. “Did you stop in to see your teyze?” her mother ... nods. She knows they’re close, knows what it is that brought them together. Loss, the men who swept ... almost your mother-in-law.” “Mother,” Ceylan says, leaving the rest unspoken. Her mother reminds her each ...
continued, "but I know I didn't get back into that truck. Or you would be looking for me ... ones who could say something like that because being clean gone was not an idea that troubled them in ... the slightest. The daughter watched the mother but didn't laugh with her. Mr. Jonas, carrying ...
but they would not hear. She toiled after them in the slow, motion way of dreams and then, from the ... Isaac's mother, translucent and shining under the soft gold nimbus of her hair. Mary Margaret awoke ... Page 36 from Issue 54 She had dreamed last night of Sister Evangeline, walking across the school ...
something lifting him higher, elevating first his arms and then his feet. He hears the crunch of car tires ... on gravel, knows the guards are leaving, they haven't even chased him. He lands on his knees ... Page 99 from Issue 135-136 "I feel you." "You gonna be feeling the end ...
