Table of Contents
The Strangest Feeling in My Legs 3
I Am Not an Actress 35
Down at the Bottom of the Page 45
It's Really Very Simple 58
Auction Catalogue: Claudette Wells Memorabilia 75
How a Locksmith Must Feel 93
Enough Blue to Make 101
Where Am I and What Am I Doing Here? 112
The Kind of Place You'd Have Trouble Getting Out Of 119
Show Me Where ft Hurts 133
Severed Heads and Chemically Preserved Grouse 140
Something Only He Can See 167
The Tired Mind Is a Stovetop 182
Oxidized Copper Exactly 199
The Girl in Question 211
The Dark Oubliettes of the House 222
The Logical Loophole 237
A Jagged, Dangerous Mass of See 245
You Do What You Have to Do 253
When All the Tiny Lights Begin to Be Extinguished 265
Down the Line 278
And Who Are You? 284
Absolutely the Right Tree 294
An Unexpected Outcome 312
To Hang On, to Never Let Go 320
Always to Be Losing Things 331
Gold-Hatted, High-Bouncing Lover 353
For Dear Life 367
Acknowledgments 385