Not everything, he said, not everything is dirt. As though the empty room had challenged…

Revise and polish, pretending that it matters ; rehearse the interview no one will air…

I’m sick to death of sensitive souls, their nightmares, symptoms, nosebleeds. Longsuffering, though not in…

As if an apology might kill him, he reversed his tantrum, took on the aspect…

The hunger for a purity of purpose, if not the harder purity of heart, the…