“We might be broke, but we’re happy,” Carlos says..."And we’re happy because we enjoy ourselves in the moment. You’re broke and depressed.”
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Asteroidea
It’s less a breaking than it is a detaching. The way they lose their arms, the way they save themselves, is by going soft.
Real Needs
I was in love with him, I told myself, and he had proven himself to be completely unknowable.
Everything We Couldn’t Be
As the sun fell toward the horizon, I lifted my sunglasses over my head. It turned out that the earth wasn’t a volcanic red. It was a dull, pastel color. I lowered my shades again. I much preferred it that way.
A Grove of Guava Trees
I had hoped to feel some sense of her spirit, her presence— but there was nothing there.
My Year of Light
Need I remind you of the properties of light? The way that it indiscriminately fills up any space that allows it in; how it does not hold back or intimidate; how it is simultaneously pragmatic and holy?