Audio. “You never sit with me, touch me, play me, anymore. Acappella? Baby, you never could hold a pitch.”

Audio. “after you read Emily Bobo’s ‘Postcards from Faerie Land,’ you’ll never think of fairy tales as children’s stories again’” (Gianna Jacobson).

Audio. “They do not burn away. The bodies.”

Audio. “I hear the stillness of the desert and her breathing, followed by the thud-thud-thudding of stone.”

Audio. “She carried a pumpkin full of prayer.”

Audio. “And she knew love had to hurt because no one had ever said ‘I love you’ unless they had hurt her first, so she took up with the piano.”