We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.