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Nora hated hearing Matt’s friends refer to that girl as a “snack”, as if a woman was a tasty meal to be consumed.
诺拉讨厌听到马特的朋友把那个女孩称为“零食”，好像女人是一顿美味的饭菜。
But if the girl she watched him take to the hotel was a snack, then she herself...
Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...
“How’d it go? Tell me everything. Do you want a smoke?”, Jialing asks rapid fire as she pulls a cigarette out from her pack of Nanjing Reds and tosses it at Rachel.
Rachel and Jialing are sitting on an old...
Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.
Mariel被告知，她出生时是白色的，就像婚礼蛋糕糖霜一样，但她不再是白人了。
She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...
Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.
不久前，Robin读到过，大多数对话都是不用语言传达的。
She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...
“Lucky, you hear that?”
“幸运，你听到了吗？”
I ask as I pull the pillow over my head, awakening from a restless sleep. I look over at Lucky, who climbs over to me and nuzzles my cheek, and I scratch behind his ears.
我一边问，一边把枕头拉到头上，从不安分的睡眠中醒来。 我看着Lucky，他爬到我身边，抚摸着我的脸颊，我挠了挠他的耳朵后面。
I...
The Artist makes ceramic tea pots, but he drinks coffee. He makes espresso mugs and a soap dish for his new apartment. He makes an ashtray and then quits smoking before he’s fired it in the kiln. She asks...
I can tell you diary, for this will not breakThe promise I was made to make,This poetic flair was fun at the startEveryone thought I was really smart,Now they think I’m doing it in spite,Even now it affects the...
Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people
Putuo officials...
