Age of Vice

by Deepti Kapoor

You think India is poor? Go and travel around America.

She was aware—intensely aware, intensely aware that the rest of the room was probably aware—that

There’s nothing we could have done, there’s everything we could have done.

“These men,” Dean was saying, “are heroes to the people from whom they steal, whose very lives they destroy.”

wind-blasted pines, trunks tilted like calligraphy strokes.