I pulled my body into new positions, wiped the sweat off myself with the thin sheet, aligned my spine along the cool wall and held the pillow between my legs to keep them from sticking together.

...the young chef had no problem giving his blessings to his young wife to spend Sunday afternoons with the writer, when she would play her violi...

The dog and the man stared at one another as the light of the sun through their living room window turned orange and then pink.

When Conchita finally broached the subject with Moises-about his flying, not marriage-he held up his right hand, palm out to his new love, and corrected her: "I do not fly, mi amor," he said softly. "I levitate."

now that s he s having this affair with Rose, her name appears everywhere: Rose owns the street. Overnight Rose has bought the woman out.

The girl’s mother extended her wrist to the velvet smear of the dotted fabric and whispered:  My dear, you’ve bled through.

Our arrival in Dachau was very well received, understandably so. Because of the town’s stigma, they had not been able to get a gynecologist to accept a position there.

Nice girls, beware. Dirty thoughts are dirty. Safe sex safe sex safe sex.  And monogamy.  And don't dress like a hooker.

Barsukov spent an evening in the city park and rising from the bench realized that he lost the thread of life - if there was one.

Tiny rivulets of grease ran from Harvey’s hand and down his arm as he raised his fingers to his hair.

It's true, Jack Pinsky had six hearts. 

Noted Romanian novelist Stelian Tanase wrote Dark Bodies with bugs in the phone and Securitate outside the door. Translation by Jean Harris.