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How long would a human being live if there were no cancer, no heart disease, no diabetes, no Alzheimer’s?
“Why not the marshals? Isn’t this more up their alley?” Sykes shook his head dismissively. “Glorified corrections officers, if you’ll excuse my saying so. Believe me, we started there. If I had a sofa I needed carried up the stairs, they’d be the first guys I’d call. But for this, no.”
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Jews for Jesus
Sister Claire often went to the 6:00 A.M. before her daily jog, which she referred to as a visit to “Our Lady of Endorphins.”
Everyone was white.
“Ain’t this a can of peas.”
“For Christsakes,” he moaned. “It’s like an episode of Green Acres.”
Cascades
a glimpse of star-dressed sky
as if they had traveled not across the width of the country but back through time itself, across the gulf of thirty years to when Wolgast was a boy.
His breath gathered in equine streams around his face. The beginning of May, and still the air seemed to hold the memory of winter.
a disorganized assemblage of wooden tables and chairs,
Everything was coated with a heavy scrim of dust.
a warren of tiny rooms tucked under the eaves.
Stars by the hundreds, their flickering light doubled in the lake’s still surface;
A.M.E.,
My daddy had people down in New Orleans, he’d grown up there before the service, and he always said that FEMA stood for “Fix Everything My Ass.”
Sometimes it’s like I’ve got so many people inside me I’m never alone at all.
A third mule, a jenny,
he had felt time opening before him, like the pages of a book.
Her black hair was pushed away from her face, a nimbus of dark tangles flapping under the brim of the cap.
All those years, waiting for the Army, and it turns out the Army is us.
He lifted his head to see a glow of daylight gathering beyond the compartment’s only window,
La Sal Mountains,
“There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives,”
