Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?