Fiction
… They’d pursued their passion for television, majoring in Communications alongside one another. Back then, Kelsey had … as she hefted it onto her shoulder, striking buttons and dials without even looking. She could check out how Jill had … have a dog or a farmhouse, they could make a life that audiences would admire. The next night, Nick came home so …
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… a four-poster bed, legally married. What’s different? Jared points to a painting the couple commissioned, his hands resting at bottom left: “Well, it’s … They’d seen it happen all their lives. A friend would die—HIV, old age, cancer—and the family would annul the …
… Traffic Jam The words come slowly, arrive slowly, changed by travel; some are … softened and faded and what it touches it softens and fades also. End of a season. The trimmings for the festival were … to point and stare. Pretend you don’t notice are words that come easily: our mothers used to hiss them into our ears, …
… Western Europe out of a slump by increasing imports (the “locomotive”)—then urged to salvage the inefficient industries … Industry (MITI) is providing research and development subsidies to the major computer manufacturers (Fujitsu, Hitachi, … The bulk of the military budget is spent in supporting the 260,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, but there are …
… need to dredge the gulf to get it all back, including the bodies,” she says. “Including the bodies.” It’s nearly … can’t afford what the city charges for demolition.” She points to an empty lot beside her house. “If you wait long … casino that operated just off the Mississippi coast in 1926—the Isle of Caprice, formerly Dog Key Island. We speak …
… hair when she wept. That evening had been unpleasant again, comfortless, with her father scolding and scornfully crying …