an island of rich white people sitting above

in order to create moredistance between them.

mountain place also had a poisoned water supply, but not from agriculture. Therewas naturally occurring uranium, so you had to bring in bottled water

The cabin was a single room with a woodstove

His body was shrunken and dried, already half abandoned

She caught herself muttering while she was preparing her morning coffee and made herself stop.

Robert but the Robert she’d imagined on the other end of all those text messagesduring break

but if she took more than a few hours to respondhis next message would always be short and wouldn’t include a question, so it was up toher to re-initiate the conversation, which she always did

But he was on the heavy side, his beard was a little toolong, and his shoulders slumped forward slightly, as though he were protectingsomething

Indians just like to believe that whitepeople will vanish, perhaps explode intosmoke, if they are ignored enough times.

If I really am O.K. with the fact that no one Iloved witnessed my death, why did I come all the way back here from the dead? Whydid I put on the esh of my body, and the clothes I wore my last day on earth? Why didI resume the voice I spoke with when I was living, and return to the weight I was at thetime of my death?