“ Completely vulnerable, completely exposed, my voice and my words echo into the abyss, with thousands of screaming faces…”
“ She took a long puff on her cigarette before adding: ‘And you don’t know what he’s been through. You should be proud to have him as your father.’”
“ It’s the dinner talk, the “how was your day?” talk, the “homework before bed” talk. That’s what makes it a lie.”
“ I blink, and in the darkness of eyelids, I see the nighttime lights of Paris along the Champs Elysee.”
“ There’s a roar of rush hour traffic, a dead-on-impact distance below. All of the screens around the office have gone dark, except one.”
“ His wife, Kirsten, was a volunteer for the Parish social committee, and was known to have the best banana bread for the post-worship pot luck.”
