She laughed, and the desert sang.

“You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get y…”

“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not …”

“Early on, Zinkoff's mother impressed upon her son the etiquette of throwing up:…”

“His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.”