Sublime

Gilbert

realised things had reached the point where I was now checking to see if the community was concealing itself in those tucked-away places too.

Blind leads—wherein you withhold the name of the person you are writing about and reveal it after a paragraph or two—range from slightly cheap to very cheap.

idiosyncrasy

agenda—with whom I disagree in such interesting ways.

I don’t go to Roxanne’s because it does me any good. Like all the others that sit on the squeaky, stained bar stools under the red lights, I go because I need the eggs.

Sandy Heller

where most of the locals looked disturbingly alike.

Sometime during the night, Maxine dreams she’s a mouse who’s been running at large inside the walls of a vast apartment building she understands is the U.S., venturing out into kitchens and pantries to scavenge for food, scuffling but free, and in these small hours she has been attracted by what she recognizes as a sort of humane mousetrap yet cann