Cosmology

When we met, the world expanded and it also contracted: it stretched large enough for the two of us—a whole universe—and it left everything else behind a curtain.

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Anthropology

I’d come looking for a list of specimens […]. The children that came to the center wore sneakers and had cell phones. They listened to the same pop songs as the rest of the world.

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Intimacy

I wished she would ask me for things more often. This was what I had in mind when I imagined growing native to a place-this sense that I was needed in someone else’s life.

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The Mirror

I didn’t quite know where my life began and how far it extended. I didn’t want to risk cutting off any vital parts.

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Life and Death

All this time, we were waiting. […] We lived with the imaginary shock. Maybe, I thought, it would also be a relief: Here it was, finally. Here was life itself.

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This was a wonderful read.