You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.