How It Ended: New and Collected Stories

“You asked me to marry you.” … “And that was the last I ever heard from you.”

旧诺翻案成篇弧，plot 87。

Tad is the kind of guy who certainly would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. He is either your best self or your worst self, you're not sure which.

损友即分身，cast 90。

“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been, well, more than a year since my last confession.”

告解切段推进，pace 91。

Your brain at present is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night.

比喻成军，prose 93。

A sign reads VEAL SPECIALISTS, HOTHOUSE BABY LAMBS, SUCKLING PIGS & KID GOATS.

肉库街夜景立世界，world 92。

You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are a little fuzzy.

经典第二人称钩，hook 95。

she flipped restlessly from one news channel to another, watching the towers fall over and over again as she waited for Liam to come home.

欲望喜剧撞上国难，innov 88。

“It's what we do when we don't know what the right thing is.” … the last sparks dying on the dewy lawn below.

正确≠对的，ending 90。