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After that, Terrence always conflated privacy with sin, the unseen with the unholy. He wore his shame like a tattoo on his forehead. |
Years later he realized he never could have loved her because she reminded him too much of himself. And God, did he ever hate that guy. |
"I didn't say the wrong name," he said with all the sincerity he could muster. "I was just role-playing." And you know what? She bought it. |
Her words were a dagger. "Adoration is a good start." She laughed, then ripped his head from his body, and feasted on his tear-filled eyes. |
"I love you when you write," she whispered, her fingernails digging a trench in my trapezius. There are times you have to ignore the unsaid. |
"You ruined my life," she said, furious. Hours later, "You don't have that much power over me" didn't seem like much of an apology. |
Blanch brings a handful of bayou to his lips. Jemmy slaps his hand away. "Don't drink dat," he says. "De crawdads, dey shit in de water." |
"Don't you know how to love?" she demanded. He paused. "I love God, and I love my mother," he said. "Everything else is just affection." |
The saddest part of Anne's mother's passing was cleaning out the medicine cabinet. There's nothing so final as throwing away a toothbrush. |
Years later, the realization hit him all at once. Margaret had been the only woman he'd ever known who could make love sarcastically. |
Alejandro's last concern was whether the stains would ever come out of the upholstery. "Death," he thought, "is filled with trivialities." |
It's funny how quickly priorities shift. He tears the loop of surgical tubing from around his arm. "Don't find me like this," he whispers. |
"You are not a hunter-gatherer!" she spat, finally fed up. "Taking the last crab rangoon does not make you a hunter-gatherer!" |
She loved the poetry of trauma. Pneumothorax. Thrombosis. Hypovolemia. All those Greek-derived words tasted like lyrics in her mouth. |
As he smeared a fat dollop of vaporub into his mustache, Marcus wondered just how he came to be most at home with a hacksaw in his hand. |
As the Earth passed through the diaphanous tail of the great comet, she thought she would always love him. But it was just cosmic radiation. |
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