TenLittleIndians

Ten Little Indians Stories Sherman Alexie For Diane, Joseph, and David For Christy Contents The Search Engine Lawyer’s League Can I Get a Witness? Do Not Go Gentle Flight Patterns The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above Do You Know Where I Am? What You Pawn I Will Redeem What Ever Happened to Frank Snake Church? A Biography of Sherman Alexie Love—bittersweet, irrepressible— loosens my limbs and I tremble. —Sappho The Search Engine ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN the student union café, Corliss looked up from her American history textbook and watched a young man and younger woman walk in together and sit two tables away. The student union wasn’t crowded, so Corliss clearly heard the young couple’s conversation. He offered her coffee from his thermos, but she declined. Hurt by her rejection, or feigning pain—he always carried two cups because well, you never know, do you?—he poured himself one, sipped and sighed with theatrical pleasure, and monologued. The young woman slumped in her seat and listened. He told her where he was from and where he wanted to go after college, and how much he liked these books and those teac......