By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and other.

“I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it …”

“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?”

“I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am b…”

“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally …”