“Lambeth’s eyes were dark to begin with, but in that moment there had seemed to be layers of black malice going all the way down . . . He decided later on that he had realized in that moment, somehow, that if you looked into eyes like that long enough, a time would come when you would be looking out of eyes like that.”
Shady Covers It
“He had an affable face, one that didn’t mind spending time with you, and didn’t mind a couple of shades of dishonesty. Nothing black though. Gray tints were acceptable.”
The Nature of Reasonable Doubt
Introduction: So let me begin with the part that a lot of people are going to want to ignore. They will have to ignore it in order to say things like "how dare you?" but the need to say "how dare you?" ...
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You’d Be Cheerful Too
“The crowd was still a crowd, and was surging cheerfully back and forth like a large lake on a choppy day.”
So Then. Letters.
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for saying here what isn’t being said elsewhere. But one point that I want to address is this growing trend of anti-cop, anti-government anger that is distancing ...
An Unwelcome Miracle
“She very carefully allowed her gaze to slide over the clock on the balcony again, and was dismayed to see that it seemed to be running backward, like Hezekiah’s sun dial.”
Minneapolis Burning and Black Privilege
Introduction: As we look back over the last week or so, I think we can agree that it was a week filled with horrors. It began with the terrible death of George Floyd, his neck pinned under a policeman's ...
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A Bit Conflicted
“She was now flirting, and she knew it. But so was he, and it was all still quite impossible, and she was furiously unhappy with her very happy self.”
Very First Thing
The Relativity of Time
“By turns, Savannah felt that the day was rushing toward her and then that it was crawling toward her. Sometimes she thought it was receding. Some moments it would never come, and other times it was almost upon her.”