Bluebeard

“If anybody has discovered what life is all about,” Father might say, “it is too late. I am no longer interested.”

It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.

It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.

thought to be treacherous for two reasons: first because they were clever and educated, and second because so many of them had relatives on the other side of Turkey’s border with its enemy, the Russian Empire.

Yes, and we were allowed to live like artists, too, hilariously careless in matters of dress and military courtesy.

Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew.”

Tell Mama!” Can you beat it?

There is nothing erotic about our relationship. I am twenty-eight years Mrs. Berman’s senior, and have become too ugly for anyone but a dog to love. I really do look like a gutshot iguana, and am one-eyed besides. Enough is enough.

backed into the war,

I have them do nothing that they did not actually do when tested on this proving ground.