RON – SIXTY-SEVEN-PIECE ART SET

The moral of these people was clear to me: if you spend your life endlessly cruising around the world, never stopping to plant children on dry land, then when you die some Greek woman you don’t even know will become the steward of your legacy. And when she wants more room in her house, she sells your legacy in the PennySaver. And no one wants it.

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

The gate began rolling open, I slipped through, but it kept opening. Even after I was seated inside across from Don, in his den, I could still hear the gate opening.

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

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.

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

And now that I had vowed to hang out with this man until I died, I also thought a lot about dying. It seemed I had not only married him but also married my eventual death. Before the vows, I might have lived alone, but forever; now I would definitely not be alone and I would definitely die. I had agreed to die, in front of all my family and friends

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