mother stopped convulsing. You shoot your brother, they said. He heard them say it, he did not hear them ... trucker said, They know what’s going on. They’re not going to endanger us. The landscape stretched flat ... sister or him. What was there to say or do that wouldn’t make it worse? They are going to chop all of us, ...

slanty and said, “Oh no, me so scared!” so I did, too. We laughed at the Japanese for being so frightened ... lights and the black leather couch. My mother, who is not his mother, came to pick me up once and Percy ... Percy was so tight on me and she could see my soft stomach indent every time he breathed. My brother ...

Heaven Ed pretends he knows what it means when his brother says, “She hates the taste of it.” They ... “Catholicism, it’s a low-maintenance kind of thing if you’re a good person.” When he blushes, his mother says ... wicked.” And then they all laugh. Afterward he lies in bed, awake late into the night. He doesn’t want to ...