Jazz

“‘I chose you.  Nobody gave you to me.  Nobody said that’s the one for you.  I picked you out.  Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife.  But the picking, the choosing.  Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you.  I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.  I saw you [...]

Quicksand

“Annoyed, but still hanging, for the sake of the twenty-five dollars, to her self-control, Helga gave her head a little toss and flung out her hands in a helpless, beaten way.  Then she shrugged.  What did it matter?  ‘Oh, well, if you really want to know.  I assure you, it’s nothing interesting.  Or nasty,’ she [...]