Forgive them, for they like their women dead
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What, a friend who came to visit me asked, is a writing group?
It’s just like a barn, I said. Horses.
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For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky.
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My grandfather and his best friend made the trip to the coast to find that the only work to be had was picking fruit for ten cents an hour.
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One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it?
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Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the ...
I had taken some thirty years ago – a walk that had stunned and disturbed me at the time, but which I had since almost forgotten…
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It was thirteen years ago that I set foot on your shores, as a starry-eyed, newly married, first-time expat.
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I was in a foul mood, which the blandness of the place, coupled with the annoyingly present weather like a child incessantly badgering us, did nothing to assuage.
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“That car’s just too big for you, love, you can’t handle it.”
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Among the many acts forbidden were talking in the locker room, talking in the halls between classes, and talking in the cafeteria until a nun shook a hand bell, a ...
Your roommate will see you binge-watching Netflix on the couch, spooning your dog. She will tell you that you’re leaving for Atlantic City at nine that night.
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Nasalized vowels. Rolled r’s. They seemed to widen the distance between me and my family. I wanted to go home.
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Both are meant to protect us, but at what cost?
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As one of the few establishments in Osaka that may possibly have offered a vegetarian option, this restaurant had taken us longer to locate than expected, seeing as Google Maps ...
Haven’t you heard of concealer for those dark circles, and by God, what a miracle that men will even speak to you. “I bet they like your bit of crazy, ...
An interview with Lior Elefant, head of the Israeli Women in Film and Television Forum, and Program Director of the Israeli film festival, Lethal Lesbian.
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Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up
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All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
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I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count?
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