and in those days we were all scared of him.... If you did anything he didn’t like or put up a simple ... well up. He pressed his lips tightly to keep from crying out. I think we were hoping that this night ... asks quietly, “You were very lonely, weren’t you, Mama?” And her mother, who seldom complains or cries ...
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stood just beyond my shoulder. “Yeah, I can see it. You been watching me all night thinking, he’s just ... this?” “Because of what you said about me playing games.” We walked through the bar to the door. Jerry ... I might have tried to punch him. If I did, he would have liked it. We walked back to his house, leaning ...
I did? “You want to stay here?” he says. “Yeah. It’s where I live.” “Yes, it is where we live. I’m so ... when he says it. “I must be blind because I never see a thing,” she says. “You’re real funny,” he says ... says it smells like someone died and in a way he’s right, but guess what, we still eat chicken because ...
as did the piercing cry of their tires. He must have blacked out from the pain, because the next ... Page 294 from Issue 133 "Next time you won't be so lucky, boy. We gonna find you ... the first time-and the last. The ride back home gave him time to think. Did Ricky make it out okay? ...
Canyon. I was a poet trying to make small talk about erosion. We stayed up all night under the bright ... and endless chlorine Sundays. “Where did you—?” Though it’s the middle of the day, Sonia has lit ... he invented. We would find a way to clean it. Or fill it with something else—how would he ...
lying to us all this time and now we're going to get you! If you're really blind like ... exasperation. "Who does he think he's fooling? Mister, you think we're nuts in this ... believe it!" she cried. The old man tried to get away, groping along the table. Leroy caught him, ...
through. It helps, you know, to feel like you’re not alone. Like you’re not some terrible person because ... I cringe inwardly when someone says: “It can’t get any worse!” because by the time they finish that ... story collection. How long did it take to compile it and did you always envision these stories coming ...
bushes to light the way. Getting the timing down, you know, because a minute late and you ... a while it got so that even when we were sober we didn't know what day it was. Then one night the ... the story began to carry him along. "They don't mind you saying you were glad to win ...
back; it could have been because I didn't buy you that thin starched straw hat decorated with ... happen today, prick up my ears at every sound, spring to my feet, am surprised it isn't ... of liquid that spills lukewarm from my eye has chilled completely to become cool by the time it flows ...
I remember it all, and none of the memory helps. I am falling. "You remember the bargain we ... me it will not help. "You were dying. Your heart was rotten; you were eaten away. We offered ... you life; you took it. You wished for this. Here in the Ring is the life we gave you ...
