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It is difficult to remain young when one’s children selfishly insist upon growing older.
To his surprise, he was discovering that being loved could be just as productive of anxiety as the lack of it was.
The youngest son drove on. Even estranged from ourselves, we still engage in the small mechanical motions of a task that has been set
What the bartender says cannot be true, and yet some part of Gary feels some part of it is true. He is drunk and can perceive truths the sober cannot admit.
“We all want things it would be better not to want,” the cat says. “We pursue them anyway, don’t we?”
One may be remarkable or not, but as a quality it has little bearing on whether or not one lives a long life. Or, for that matter, a happy life.
Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin.
I went in darkness down the aisle of the plane, passing women sleeping, women playing games on their phones or their iPads, women talking. That delicious smell from my dream was in my nostrils. Blood that shouldn’t have been there was between my thighs. But we have no control over our own bodies. The things we feel. The things that happen to us, over and over again. The things we crave.
