and they hit the wall. “Not funny,” she says, her voice close to cracking. Hearing it surprises me ... them more than the reality. They prove she’s a girl too, but she adamantly denies it. That’s something ... cute, but that is something I am not allowed to say with my actual voice. She watches me dress, does ...
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I suddenly realized there was a man keeping step a little behind me. He was laughing one of those soft ... something' (as we used to say) once the kids were older. But they took my daughter and the next day I was ... didn't. By now it was dawn, and all they could do was collapse. As soon as possible, they sent their son ...
interacted, which means they carry memories of how they experienced me or my personas in time, even if they’re ... instruct. To self-destruct or fall silent is to re-up Nietzsche’s ante: art too is dead. Silence has always ... They tear open negative spaces where breath can hang between our words. * While it doesn’t help me feel ...
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"Oh, darling!" my mother exclaims. I am not sure if it is to me or Mr. Arnette. They are both ... I imagine," I say. He snorts out a laugh. "Why'd you marry her?" I hear myself ask. ... but to something that wasn't said. He says it like we've been on the porch together ...
hugged herself. “I know.” Ruth told me this about a thousand times every time I babysat. “Now you say ... even know me.” And she was like, “I do, too. I know you embroider flowers on the bottoms of your jeans, ... while it’s all slick.” “My hair’s just so fine,” she sighed. “You’re lucky yours is so coarse.” I know ...
out, all of them calling for me to come back once they realized how far out I'd really gone. ... She's right. "Sometimes you're really stupid," Jonquil says. And then points: ... waves to us. "I'm going for a walk," Jonquil says huskily. I start to go too ...
Page 84 from Issue 78 Jonathan laughed. "And how about me? If you're sorry, how ... Teitleman said. "That's what they all say. But I don't believe it for ... head over me, Momma." "What am I saving it for?" Jonathan laughed and ...
turns his head to witness the wet shards. “All right, then, fuck,” says the big man softly, wagging his ... Scared me,” he says. “The man knows how to loom. He only left a minute ago.” “What was he doing here?” ... Sarah. “All that really means—I don’t know how to put it. How they dressed and carried themselves, you ...
it," and a couple of people in the circle of chairs they're in started laughing and the poet ... knows, the old fool's on his way out too." The man's wife says "Now ... Page 107 from Issue 98 TRIQUARTERLY stopped for me and drove me to my office, something I was ...
I imitate them. I go in the ladies' room and smile at their jokes and laugh. They look at me and ... , everyone looking around as if they are all looking for someone to recognize, and someone gives me a drink ... , and their laughter sounds like noise. No one, it seems, can hear what anyone is supposed to be saying ...
