“On the way home, I wondered why it couldn’t have been raining. It was that one day when the apple trees and flowering crabs are in perfect bloom, and you know it can’t last.”
– Dan Gerber, from “Yard Sale,” Grass Fires: Stories (Clark City Press, 1989)
“He didn’t feel right himself. He was, for one thing, a good deal smaller than his skin. Your body owns you; another house, isn’t it?”
– William H. Gass, from “Icicles,” In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories (New York Review Books, 2015)
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