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I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations,...more

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Cole,” I said, “do you think I’m lovable?”“As in ‘cuddly and’?”“As in ‘able to be loved,’” I said.Cole’s gaze was unwavering. Just for a moment, I had...more

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Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.”Voicemai...more

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Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I w...more

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whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!

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His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of...more

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Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.

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A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all ...more