And the question is, which one is really "you.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

if thr r childrn thr mst be a fUtr rt?

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.