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How to break in: with a name, a statement.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
An accolade, one side a white cheek, the other a black. The white one she kissed on the left cheek, the black one on the right, as if these were two sides of one face.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
She avoided walking past the barracks because of the machine guns the young sentries had in place of rifles.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
The ugly mansions of the rich who had fled stood empty on the bluff above the sea.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
When you live in a small town far from the world you read about in municipal library books, the advent of repair men in the house is a festival. Daily life is gaily broken open, improvisation takes over.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)
The day the cease-fire was signed she was caught in a crowd. Peasant boys from Europe who had made up the colonial army and freedom fighters whose column had marched into town were staggering about together outside the barracks, not three blocks from her house in whose rooms, for ten years, she had heard the blurred parade-ground bellow of colonial troops being trained to kill and be killed.
A Soldier's Embrace: Stories (1980)