1039102
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While serving in government, she plotted to change it.
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101021
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She continued to cooperate with a city council agenda dominated by globalized privatization
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94061
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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1491244
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A woman’s hair is her crowning glory, my grandmother always said.
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129297
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Rory and Betty Sloan entered the first of 40 rooms in the new Motel 6 to place Holy Bibles in 40 night tables.
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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1538116
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Follow my finger up the canyon wall, past the Chevy wedged into its own ferocious orbit. It was that innocent...
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107352
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Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.
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11651610
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There will always be some
who misread the dance
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114011
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There is no cement stronger than the one holding a miserable couple together.
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10062014
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I become the accumulation/
of appetites
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102890
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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181021
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A drag queen thrown from the mechanical bull Thursday night is my fault, they say, they meaning management. And because of the ensuing brouhaha and the ambulance and the medics and a thousand flannel shirts straining for a look, I failed to pick up Jenny, my six-year-old…
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48843
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"Living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see.'--John Lennon That's an ache that's always inside me. How you'd rathertreat people as if they don't matteras much as some nice sounding words in a song. Their voicesas less than an annoying wind? Because…
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86533
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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.
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74000
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Neil Young told me, “Artistry is like waves. You’re in a trough and everybody thinks you’re gone and then you come to the top of a wave and everybody says, hey, where’d you come from? We thought you were gone.”
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110173
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Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.
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132121
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In the blue of the yard the twins boil and scrape,
twisting about beneath the sycamore tree.
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156988
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But we tell them to each other. We feel we are riding on a boat in the well. That is our secret. We aren't. We know we aren't.
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101976
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"I'm in a wrestling movie!" you shouted.
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8801310
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I realize that to say, "I do not believe in God" is footsteps away from "I do not rely on God" and "God left me."
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118544
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The litany of tough decisions scrawled on. Stencil Gucci on no-name jeans. Buy cheap chocolate and scrape the name off. I looked over and watching the saliva encrusting in the corner of Larry’s mouth, my heart sank.
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98121
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“Well, of course I served in the CIA . . . everybody did, back then!” he says with a grin. “Two goddamn bloody well years . . . I was a regular Nayland Smith, I tell you. …
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Once upon a time, on March 8, 2011, to be exact, there was a flash fiction writer named Rinsewater who had a novel idea – flash fiction writers whose stories were published by indie lit magazines must be paid for their work!
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Paddy's night arrived in the manner of finding a half torn fiver, initial anticipation usurped by disappointment before a chancer's edge suggested some craic might ensue after all. A great crowd had gathered somewhere else, for under Hill street bridge…
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92900
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Betty had been looking for a distraction; the lawsuits were out of control. Her last nonprofit, Faith and Life Children's Organization, had run into some difficulties due to the recession and the obvious result of trying to do more with less. Why couldn't people…
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128746
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Two cars smashed together, the sky started to look like a foot infected with gout...
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with binoculars
neighbor reads
screen text:
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I was a Cub Scout, and the face of God was a joke that was told to my little pack. The joke went as thus:
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