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You worry that he is mad. You see him making eye contact with just you across the crowd. He just saw you spit onto his rug. You are rubbing it in with your shoe now. You feel like an asshole, alone at this party. He is a close friend of your close friend, whom you can’t seem to spot right now. He is approaching, and you are feeling worse and worse as he approaches. You look down and see the darkened spot where your spit and foot have rubbed the shag against its grain. You are an asshole and n...

The first person to see the body on the ground wonders if anyone saw the jump. The thud alerted him. He turned to find blood pouring like a tipped water pail out of the body on the sidewalk ten feet from him. His car keys are in his hand. He is trying to see if there's anyone in the street or in a window who is looking at him. Trying to see if someone can transfer, through his or her glance, the message that clearly he/she saw the whole bloody thing. The body is face up. Chest up. There is no...

“…and you don’t have to listen, it’s a boring story,” she says, “but I have to tell it.” [Then go ahead and tell it] She is alone in her bedroom, getting secretly high and talking to herself while Dad watches Leno in the living room. The fact that she’s imagining conversation is not evidence of schizophrenia. Well, she hopes not. It’s more like practice. She thinks of it as something like stand-up comedy. You have to hone your material before you film the HBO special. Practicing the telling o...

“…and you don’t have to listen, it’s a boring story,” she says, “but I have to tell it.” [Then go ahead and tell it] She is alone in her bedroom, getting secretly high and talking to herself while Dad watches Leno in the living room. The fact that she’s imagining conversation is not evidence of schizophrenia. Well, she hopes not. It’s more like practice. She thinks of it as something like stand-up comedy. You have to hone your material before you film the HBO special. Practicing the telling o...

The first person to see the body on the ground wonders if anyone saw the jump. The thud alerted him. he turned to find blood pouring like a tipped water pail out of the body on the sidewalk ten feet from him. He is trying to see if there is anyone in the street or in a window who can look at him and transfer through his or her glance the message that clearly he/she saw the whole thing, the way people always look when that happens. He notices that the head looks nothing like a head, more a cra...