“According to the local bloggers, the latest census identified 98118, the Rainier Valley in South Seattle, as the most diverse zip code in the US.”

This is a different kind of dark than the one beneath a bedcover, more like the one inside a fist, a dark where we can’t see our own arms and can pretend for a while that we haven’t yet been booted from our mothers by that god who gets paid to kick girls out of the womb...

Noh Eunbi dies in a ditch in Delaware, and you will see her ghost.

(Advice to ASL students: If the deaf person teaches you a sign, do not thank them again and again. Simply repeat the sign and remember it.)

Beatriz feels alarmingly soft in your hands, and you graze her body with your palms the way you would pet the long grass by the river where you live. She tosses her dark hair aside, wraps her hand over yours, and clenches down on her own flesh.

For the rest of the day, they worked side by side in silence with a renewed love that passed between them that needed no reassurance of its existence...