Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sanders sleeps. Hundreds of benches lie empty, and a lonely pool of spring sunshine travels across the hardwood floor of the grand old theater. A couple of hours later, a door swings open, and the dusty air stirs as somebody walks in 10 minutes early for lecture. One minute elapses, and a pack of talkative TFs file in. They speak softly. In whiffs and poofs, students arrive, still quiet. Seven minutes go by-more people still. The spotlights turn on; the P.A. system warms up, and the room buzzes with ambient sound. At 10 minutes, hundreds of rustling papers...
...those who didn't revise their chalky winter complexion with an intersession jaunt to the Islands, consider plan B. B for bake. Fake bake. A quick jaunt to a local tanning salon can make the epidermis tell a big fat lie...
...then our relationship soured. The "chrome" crowning the pen cap began to peel, revealing the shoddy, plasticky truth-she had been sheathed in a pseudo-chrome laminate. She was living a lie, and I wanted nothing to do with that $27 flake. Back to the store she went...
John sits, and as he tries to convince a stranger that he was railroaded the second time around, the lie flickers across his face and then settles in his eyes. You want to stand up and throttle him--first for what he did to his victims, and second for what he has done to his mother. And then you want to reach down inside him and get to his father...
...then he stops himself, and his eyes become clear and matter-of-fact, and he says, "You know what? I can't lie. I did some things, and I deserve to be here." His father's abuse is part of what he became, he says. "But not a major part." He put himself in prison, he will likely die there, and his mother, who amazes him, is all he has. "Her love transcends whatever obstacle I've thrown in front...