It Chooses You

Number two was person. Number three was year. Number 320 was future. The Future.

RON – SIXTY-SEVEN-PIECE ART SET

I was so young then that I couldn’t presume murder wasn’t in my future too. It seemed unlikely, but so did everything.

Sometimes men with this kind of body ask you to punch them; that didn’t happen this time.

Trying to see things that are invisible but nearby has always been alluring to me.

We thanked each other many times. It was unclear why we were so thankful – it had to have been for totally different reasons, or maybe just the shared high of communion.

You get used to it after a while. Look at the colors. Our creator just has an unbelievable imagination.

They were small, but they no longer seemed cute; there was a strong man inside of each one.

I would pick up where I had left off before I met him, when I was thirty. I would finally cook the great northern beans into a soup, and I would sit and eat that soup, alone, and then I would go to sleep, as if my entire life with him had been a single long day.