I ask her to dance and she starts laughing and says, I’ve seen you dance, and I tell her I’m not afraid of humiliation, but she says she is.

They surveyed the planet, windswept, desolate, a new home. Sanctuary. The task before them felt impossible. I have to pee, the tall one said.

I may need a shave but I woke up wearing a tiara and believing in world peace, an end to hunger, and that all bad things are like really bad.