No Frills
Janet Capron
“The taxi sailed downtown along the East River, on its way to deliver me to my first whorehouse.”
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Dear Cyborgs
Eugene Lim
“Dave said, I’d met this guy at a bar who happened to be a night guard at The Frick museum, and he said he could, since he knew I was a painter (‘Only a Sunday painter,’ I’d said; ‘Whatever,’ this guy’d said), if I was interested, let me in to the museum after hours.”
“We Were the Drowners”
Josie Sigler
“It was every Dolphin’s loftiest goal: to be chosen by Jim Yablonski, director of the Downriver Municipal Outdoor Pool, as one of his Drowners.”
Extraordinary Adventures
Daniel Wallace
“For her seventieth birthday, Bronfman had ordered his mother a pair of battery-heated socks because she said her feet were always, always cold.”
The Last Kid Left
Rosecrans Baldwin
“Suzanne Toussaint is long-bodied and thin-skinned and always cold.”
Behind the Moon
Madison Smartt Bell
“Jamal dozed in the green twilight of the hospital room, listening to the click and burble of machines, the steady whisper of Julie’s breathing.”
The Awkward Age
Francesca Segal
“Though Pamela had not grown up with Thanksgiving, as a hostess she had nonetheless managed to capture its essence.”
The Hotel
Véronique Bizot (trans. Youna Kwak)
“I think you weren’t there when, having finished dinner in the hotel restaurant, the young couple went back up to their room to find half a dozen rats running around in every direction.”
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