Contents

The Lightning 5 Repossession 7 Girl 9 Ants 11 The Baby Who Understood Shadows 12 Rachel 13 Jogging with Roger 14 The Woman, a Coat and Her Behaviour 15 Fabric 16 Betty Draper Shoots at Her Neighbour’s Pigeons 17 I Was Left to Wipe Myself and Dress 18 The Most Beautiful Part of My Daughter 19 Pleurisy I 20 Ida and the Box 21 The Water’s Fine 23 Nomenclature 24 With Sarah 26 Bright Celestial Objects 28 Marriage Is a Room of Lit Bulbs 29 Reverse Charge Call 31 Alison 32 Pleurisy I 34 Dare 35 To Say Everything Is White 36 Drinking Their Capri-Suns 37 Well 39 The Certificates 41 White Currants 42 it is still my favourite thing 43 Dodgems 45 Pleurisy I 46