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1 " Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming. "
― Gary Lutz , Stories in the Worst Way
2 " From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone. "
3 " Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for - a shimmered arm, or parts unknown - is ready, finally, to have itself be handled. "
4 " Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day. "
5 " I got used to being one of sleep's discards. "