They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.


"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)


They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to ...

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to ...

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to ...

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to ...