The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
Joyce Carol Oates
"I can play sane, like you."
"The suspense ended for Elliott Tuesday night when a Task Lyst alert sounded on his smartphone."
"'On the count of murder in the first degree, we find the defendant, Jeremiah Taylor, not guilty,' a slender woman says softly."
"The semidetached house has a single bay window on the lower floor and a small square of soggy front garden surrounded on three sides by a heavily pruned knee-high hedge."
"A large gate loomed up before the Audi A6."
"In the village of Hauterives in the south of France, there’s a curious building known as Cheval’s Palais Idéal."
"Every cell in the human body holds a person's complete genetic material."
"There’s this thing about living in Wormtown my older brother Joe doesn’t get, or he does get it and doesn’t want to admit it."