He swears that he can feel them sometimes, phantom appendages on his back twitching and thrumming with unlived life. “I swear mummy. I swear.”

She purchased a pair of wide-leg jeans in a wash called agave and left the store with a stride so light she barely touched the ground. She had come to the mall for one thing: to be seen.

“People are observing when they first get somewhere,” Sam said. “Or when they’re about to leave.” 

Grievance 10 is also not able to be analyzed. It seems you have submitted a recollection of a dream in which you and Susan are adults, old, with sagging breasts, inside a dressing room.

“Only people who have been in love can recognize other people in love, Ting thought.”

In an uncategorizable dream, she was in a doctor’s office. The doctor had dyed black hair and didn’t use gloves for the pelvic examination. The room was full of rotting food. Then she was home and opening an envelope, and inside the envelope was a check for $100,000.