7-Eleven
"My mother’s lament: four girls, but the little one will not eat her food."
Tree Rings, Gutted
"(I’m trying to apologize to the trees.) (I’m trying not to let the rings be parenthetical to the story.) (The rings make the story.) (I’m here to study the story.)"
It Must Have Been
"They trusted us with the money, why not the keys too? There was no one around except the ghosts."