When the new shopkeeper arrived in the village he aroused great curiosity along with some scorn. He was deemed refined because his fingernails looked as if they had been varnished a tinted ivory. He had a horse, or as my father was quick to point out, a glorified pony, which he had brought from the Midlands, where he had previously worked.
On the mattress, my eyes fixed on the bulb, I waited and waited and no one came.
Keeping a journal is a perilous thing, and we should be warned against it as children.
She would like to believe the appreciation of beauty is never a waste. But this does not an essay write.
Theoretically we love the forced communions of urban life. Practically we avoid them.
The first set had ended things. The second was just to let the air in.
Among the many rules on the grief bus, the most sacred, perhaps, is this: never ask for information not freely offered.
He will live on for decades—eating, talking, laughing, fucking—while she will cease to exist in just a few weeks.
The building was frustrating. Was that because the person who lived in it was?
She walked as if she were afraid that putting one foot down on the floor too hard would make the boards crack.
After talking about his vegetables, we inevitably talk about the past.