Easy comfort isn't comforting

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.