February 2010
“There is also the ceaseless outpouring of books on toilet training, separating...”
““To emphasize how truly backward our society is…let’s finish...”
January 2010
“Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the...”
“‘Course they wouldn’t have all the details, like whether or not they...”
“It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on...”
“After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we...”
“I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually...”
“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my...”
“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”...”
“Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway...”
“When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out...”
“We were making good time now, barreling through the bodacious curves of...”
“Conversing with children is a fine art…. An art form that demands large...”
“Later that evening I lay down in Min’s empty bed upstairs and pulled her...”
“She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a...”
“It’s impossible to move through the stages of grief when a person is both...”
“The guy’s name was Colt.
Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse?
I...”
“Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory...”
“When we got back to the house Logan grabbed his basketball, threw it really hard...”
“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”...”
“There is not one wide happiness that reaches us all at the same time.”...”
“Tell me about Stackpole then…
Like I am now, but smaller.”
~Susan...”
“Mr. Phipps seemed to think criminality was passed down through the generations...”
“No trains. No traffic noise. At night, my mother’s old bedroom was so dark...”
“What if…? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.”
~Susan Fletcher...”
