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The choices always seem to be fight or flight, but I typically end up somewhere in between, doing exactly neither. I stay and I take the beating.
“How do the emails work?” I ask. “Well, email is short for ‘electronic mail,’ ” Jared says. “Ray Tomlinson is credited as inventing the technology in 1971, but we all know it was really the brainchild of Shiva Ayyadurai.”
A few kids. I don’t see Connor. Obviously, I don’t see Connor. He’s not alive. You can’t see people who aren’t alive.
and a joke award ribbon that says I PUT ON PANTS TODAY
Her rust-colored corduroys hike up just enough to reveal her naked ankles.
She smiles at me, a real and full smile, the kind Zoe seems reluctant to hand out freely to anyone, and I feel myself bask in it. Like: I made that happen.
She spins one panel of the cube and then, thinking better of it, spins it right back into place, as if not wanting to spoil its perfection.
Grapefruits. Your balls are the size of grapefruits. How do you walk around with those things in your pants?
The bottom of my computer warms my thighs, definitely giving me cancer.