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145 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 6, 2014
...it was more pleasant for him and for me if we did not meet at the cash register, but secretly I knew everything was more complicated, I knew I had thought of his body, as he found himself in a hapless situation, I had imagined him as he moved across the border in Mexicali, secretly and in danger, as a shadow, as a silhouette on a thermal image screen, I had subjugated his body with my presumption as I sat alone in my quiet room at night without him realising I had forcibly placed him in this context which I did not know first-hand, it had excited me to exercise control over his body like this, in the same way as I had tossed him the word carnitas, and when I saw him now, Christopher, at the register, nametag pinned to his chest, waving a friendly hello, it all came back to me.