#Excerpts

From Slate Magazine: The Most Powerful Way to Fight the Exhaustion of the Trump Era Was Figured Out Decades Ago

Sali – 2003 There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.

You arrived with startling and terrible news, having decided to inform me of it immediately, audaciously, and forthrightly, banking on my staunch inner resolve, yet showing both pity and compassion for me all the same: ‘I’m afraid you’ll...

When Sami woke up from his nap no the cozy, oversized leather recliner, an old black-and-white Egyptian film was playing on the gigantic TV screen.

I kissed Alice for the first time later that afternoon as she wrestled with the wringer washer in the laundry nook off the kitchen.

If you met anyone as whiny, as disobliging and ego centric as the average narrator of a novel in real life you’d find them unbearable.

Aphrodite *through the dark Symplegades;* Aphrodite perched on her rock at Paphos, and looked out at the Cyprian sea.

Andrea wants somebody to hug her hard, to squeeze her until every bone in her skeleton cracks.