Although I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write, but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

He prided himself on being not menacing like a bear.

I came suddenly awake and the rain was beating a furious rhythm on the rooftops, like a thousand shaken tambourines, like a thousand angry mojaves.

Scraping the baked on Bar B Q sauce from the grabbing ends of the stainless steel tongs has my total attention.

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Childish methods for gathering evidence of survival.

“She's the year of the horse,” Metri said as he peeled his dirty head from the bed, his hair was as matted as a racoon tale. It was as wild as a wild animal and smelled like body odor with a hint of blood. He slid his scabbed hands up to his chest as if to…

the room in which situations are kept

I hung my head the day my eighth grade math teacher told me I wouldn't amount to anything, and not long after that I dropped out of school because nobody was going to miss a kid like me who wasn't good at math or anything else they tried to teach. I hung my head a couple of…

I mean you've got to go out there sooner or later. Someone's behind you. They can't go until you make your final fatal move. We all knew this was coming. They won't accept any regrets as tokens. BTW. And besides, you are your own ticket. You…

Every ten days, the Decadent Sisters assembled for dinner. Although raised together, they were each very different...

This is your only life. Honor it.

inconvenient children thrown away wrapped in plastic like garbage

It is equally likely that just as the rate of melt continues, the rate of melt will also continue to accelerate.

A riot of greens

"I’d rather move a word around a page than raise a glass or pass a plate or work a room immune to poetry."

I know you probably don’t want to hear any more of this nudist stuff about my family and all, but this Reamer guy was a red-faced German boozehound if there ever was one. He married my brother’s ex-wife Beryl, after Harris left her to her cheap red jug wi