“I hear my name and “possible gang member.””

“It was very strange to find only the claws.”

“I do not know why you shudder when two men kiss”

“she would be sentencing herself or him to death”

“I open the gown reluctantly and brace for the ungentle probing I’ve come to expect”

“A hardening from head to toe, as if I’d armored myself”

“Their wrists are gnarled tree branches”

“At couples counseling, the Kleenex box is on the side, half-empty.”

“I was the first woman you’d eaten and you were the second woman I’d eaten “

“Don’t wake me, I plan on sleeping in”

“There is something worth gritting your teeth or going meditation dead for”

“She didn’t say another word until we were both done and zipped back up”

“I take a picture of it. I delete it. I un-delete it.”

“We would have to build new pantheons, new meanings.”

“here we were standing outside a church on a Tuesday morning looking for help.”

“your arms and legs stretched in four directions”

“remember wrapping my arms around his back, squeezing”

“You shouldn’t blame yourself, for shooting me 44 times”

“Hold hands [or not]. Smoke pot. Sleep. Turn down advances.”