Obscured by Clouds
1. Sand slid under his feet as he walked behind her and he wondered what had changed so that he was trusting a woman.
2. Marcus never learned how to dance, but he'd never needed it anyway.
3. He could remember a time when his brother had told him he still wished on stars and Marcus had laughed.
4. There were times when he wondered if brother was man or machine, heartless.
5. It was a startling realization, the worry he had for Star and Kyle, how he would watch them both as they slept, just to make sure they kept breathing through the night.
6. When he got high, he smiled, as an old girlfriend once told him; how he never could laugh until he was two hits away from passing out on the floor.
7. This was what he knew: the earth was salted as though Sherman's armies had marched through Southern California, scorched so nothing could ever live here again.
8. Rum was his mother's favorite, but when she got drunk enough she couldn't tell the difference.
9. Marcus could hardly think of it as war when the losing side would have no treaty to sign at the end, no post-war reconstruction.
10. There were some things Marcus knew he would never have, a wedding, kids, stability, but it wasn't like he'd wanted them anyway.
2. Marcus never learned how to dance, but he'd never needed it anyway.
3. He could remember a time when his brother had told him he still wished on stars and Marcus had laughed.
4. There were times when he wondered if brother was man or machine, heartless.
5. It was a startling realization, the worry he had for Star and Kyle, how he would watch them both as they slept, just to make sure they kept breathing through the night.
6. When he got high, he smiled, as an old girlfriend once told him; how he never could laugh until he was two hits away from passing out on the floor.
7. This was what he knew: the earth was salted as though Sherman's armies had marched through Southern California, scorched so nothing could ever live here again.
8. Rum was his mother's favorite, but when she got drunk enough she couldn't tell the difference.
9. Marcus could hardly think of it as war when the losing side would have no treaty to sign at the end, no post-war reconstruction.
10. There were some things Marcus knew he would never have, a wedding, kids, stability, but it wasn't like he'd wanted them anyway.