Babylon And Other Stories (2006)
Babylon And Other Stories
“He'd started to think that he wasn't capable of it, that in his soul—or heart, or brain chemistry, or wherever the center of a person was located—something essential was lacking. Over the years he'd dated enough women to know he was straight, and he'd cared for some of them a lot; in college, he and his girlfriend Marisa had even tossed around names for potential children. But when Marisa suddenly got sulky their senior year, stopped laughing at his jokes, and eventually announced she'd been nu...rsing “a thing” for his roommate for almost a year and had recently found out he had “a thing” for her, too, that she was therefore breaking up with him and would love to still be friends although she'd understand if he couldn't handle it, he wasn't shattered. Pained and irritated—especially when forced to listen to them having loud, panting sex at all hours of the day and night on the other side of his dorm-room wall—but not shattered. This, he thought, was where he failed. He never felt himself split open like a melon, offering all his vulnerable fruit to the world.MoreLess
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