Just when we come out of the tunnel, sunlight descends on the valley like the open palms of God reaching out to his realm - beasties and wretched humans, flora and fauna and all. I see that my brother’s eaten every bit but the hard elbow of the loaf of bread that I’d put in [...]
All I knew in those years was wanting… Wanting to breathe in men of all kinds—dewy and fresh, raspy and unshaven, starchy and overbearing, timid and staccato. I would stand and stare at them all, imagine all the possibilities, the many lives I could have as their one-night stand, their mistress, their wife.
I was twenty-two [...]