Interpreter of Maladies

They were able to talk to each other again

The first time I was alone in your apartment, I looked in your address book to see if you'd written me in. I think we'd known each other two weeks

three times the size of

discarded her shoes

tied it tightly about her waist,

Don’t you dare.”

had little in common with any of them,

taking off her slippers

stepped off the bus

either hand he held