won’t. He has told me a thousand times since we were kids. Nah, Mercedes, I don’t even notice y’all ... ’s worn it since grade school and it’s lucky, he says. Come on, M. Just because it was your dad’s doesn’t ... We’ve kept in touch. He invites me out to stay with him and his girlfriend. He says it’s good money, ...
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was as if it were for the first time. And my Grandmother Elsa says, 'Yes, yes, we ... and says, 'Marna, maybe I should go to a conservatory.' Each time she said this it ... 've been through this a hundred times, Sophie. You know how absurd at your age...' "Or my ...
on the train, he answered in English; what’s up? We can talk later if it’s a bad time, Gillian said. ... Avner was debating whether he should try to explain what was so special about its architecture. Did you ... transparent, as if he could see through her skin. Isn’t it freaky? Kleiman was saying. Seeing their little ...
he did not come home. 79. TF You can help me. 80. TF In the morning they came holding their hats in ... "What are you doing here?" 64. TF I didn't know the right answer. 65. TF He said, ... testing him. 67. TF He and the lady had been drinking together. 68. TF He said, "You are a man ...
Page 99 from Issue 80 through that with lovemaking their words would be dissolved. She would ... it?" he said. "What if we waited an hour? What if we just waited here and sat still for an ... that she was no longer playing fair. She was drawing back behind her masks. It came through in her ...
night he takes out his knife, teaches me how to clean and gut and grill a fish. We cook it with oil and ... he says the lie: Alsana, I will tell you a secret—you can do anything, because you are strong. ... logistics: we cannot bury him because the soldiers are outside and they are digging up graves for sport; he ...
Page 208 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY gasped as he was slowly led away, out through the door, into ... "Happens all the time, man. This is a really fucked-up joint." Tony now was more interested in the ... let the question pass. Tony looked down and pursued them through their card game. "You guys ...
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laughing and clapping all at the same time. And we, we're happy. The drummers ent paying no mind ... and those same drummers were there, only they weren't playing Kalinda that time. It was ... After that, we didn't even hear what the other villages did. We hear, but we couldn't ...
me. 1 was sure it was her when she smiled because of her bad teeth." He shrugged wryly. ... things she made me feel. Even that first night, when we went to bed and she did a few things she thought ... and cheese and a bottle of wine. She did come, dressed like a young college girl on a Saturday night ...
removed from its cradle if one was to think at all. And from that time, right through the hottest days of ... the second time that day. His success was hardly surprising. He was after all a stalwart young fel ... husband and wife, who made real love. Business was very good. It did tend to slacken a bit in the harsh ...
