before she could contemplate doing something for herself with her time

By Alder Duan Hurley
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before she could contemplate doing something for herself with her time

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She didn’t mind amusing them—humor was part of her intent

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We resented her white knuckles, darting eyes.

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Mei had been in jail for six months and a handful of days.

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I think about your hands when I look at mine

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但巡迴遊樂園並不害怕,只要再次拆卸自毀,它們換個地方就可以重新活過來。
| As long as the traveling carnival committed self-destruction, it could come alive once more in a different place.

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And yet you’re still here.

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Chow reminded Cheng that a lot of writers drink but drinking does not turn him into a writer.

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You dreamed of what could be, unaware of what was.

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“I’m a truck driver. Long-distance. I just came back from California yesterday.”

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twelve new years

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This made for juicy morsels of gossip for the goûter at four o’clock

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I wrack my brain for ways of describing this pain but nothing original comes to mind.

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He had once asked his mother to describe his father’s face, a question whose weight he did not recognise until he had been older.

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I was angry then. No. I wanted to be just like her.

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I went on a jog this morning in a never-ending Chinatown.

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After everyone has passed it around, Tharani wraps it in a tissue and tucks it into her polar-fleece pocket.

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Trying is a fitting operative verb here.

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A handful of us scream in recognition like sea flares on a dance floor.

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before she could contemplate doing something for herself with her time

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twelve new years

Fiction

She didn’t mind amusing them—humor was part of her intent

Fiction

This made for juicy morsels of gossip for the goûter at four o’clock

Fiction

We resented her white knuckles, darting eyes.

Fiction

I wrack my brain for ways of describing this pain but nothing original comes to mind.

Fiction

Mei had been in jail for six months and a handful of days.

Fiction

I think about your hands when I look at mine

Fiction

He had once asked his mother to describe his father’s face, a question whose weight he did not recognise until he had been older.

Fiction

但巡迴遊樂園並不害怕,只要再次拆卸自毀,它們換個地方就可以重新活過來。
| As long as the traveling carnival committed self-destruction, it could come alive once more in a different place.

Fiction

I was angry then. No. I wanted to be just like her.

Fiction

And yet you’re still here.

Fiction

I went on a jog this morning in a never-ending Chinatown.

Fiction

Chow reminded Cheng that a lot of writers drink but drinking does not turn him into a writer.

Fiction

After everyone has passed it around, Tharani wraps it in a tissue and tucks it into her polar-fleece pocket.

Fiction

You dreamed of what could be, unaware of what was.

Fiction

Trying is a fitting operative verb here.

Fiction

“I’m a truck driver. Long-distance. I just came back from California yesterday.”

Fiction

A handful of us scream in recognition like sea flares on a dance floor.