David James Poissant
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August 2007
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The Heaven of Animals
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2010
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Lake Life
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2020
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Atlanta Noir
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2017
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What the Wolf Wants
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Lizard Man
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Knockout
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Refund (One Story, Volume 10 Number 7, October 7, 2011)
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The Florida Review 48.1 (Fall 2024)
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2024
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[David James Poissant]-[Lake Life]-[Hardcover]
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One Story - Volume 10, No. 7 , 2011 (Issue Number 155) -- Refund
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“Anyway, I'm done with God."
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?”
― The Heaven of Animals
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?”
― The Heaven of Animals
“Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?”
― The Heaven of Animals
― The Heaven of Animals
“Most meals, I pay for myself so I can stock up on weeks Aaron goes a little crazy. His therapist calls this enabling. I call it love. She says I'm a problem, and I, for one, have agreed to disagree.”
― The Heaven of Animals
― The Heaven of Animals
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“Your parents must feel terrible."
"Not really. Dad says all things work together for the good of the Kingdom."
If there was a kingdom, Brig had been left out of it. He wanted to say as much, to tell her that this kingdom business was what you said when you didn't want your daughter blaming you for Brazil, except, here she stood, one-arm-happy, and Brig had the strongest sensation that it wasn't his place to say. Instead, he said: "And you're sure of that? That all things work together for good?”
― The Heaven of Animals
"Not really. Dad says all things work together for the good of the Kingdom."
If there was a kingdom, Brig had been left out of it. He wanted to say as much, to tell her that this kingdom business was what you said when you didn't want your daughter blaming you for Brazil, except, here she stood, one-arm-happy, and Brig had the strongest sensation that it wasn't his place to say. Instead, he said: "And you're sure of that? That all things work together for good?”
― The Heaven of Animals
“Anyway, I'm done with God."
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?”
― The Heaven of Animals
Lily smiled. "But what if it's not God you're mad at?" she said. "What if the thing you're mad at is this idea of God, this really bad idea you got from other people. What if God exists? What if God is love? Aren't you going to feel stupid later?”
― The Heaven of Animals
“Most meals, I pay for myself so I can stock up on weeks Aaron goes a little crazy. His therapist calls this enabling. I call it love. She says I'm a problem, and I, for one, have agreed to disagree.”
― The Heaven of Animals
― The Heaven of Animals
“Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?”
― The Heaven of Animals
― The Heaven of Animals
“She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines she might live forever.”
― The Heaven of Animals
― The Heaven of Animals

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