1784 6 2
|
She walked, thighs flaming fire-cold, without complaining or grumbling or cursing the goddamn Midwestern winters the way the others did.
|
1540 6 2
|
It was as if a car bomb went off in Beaver Cleaverville.
|
927 6 0
|
As unlikely as it may seem, John Coltrane was in fact a member of the U.S. Navy Band in 1947 in Honolulu.
|
1372 6 5
|
His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.
|
1634 6 6
|
When she finally arrived it was like a cello playing inside me
|
947 6 5
|
It was the early 80's My students carried / guns.
|
1230 6 6
|
alright, alright but not so much of a friendly little cigar-chomping companion-like a friendly ghost! That sweeping hair of longed for sleeping only awaits you once you've drowned too …
|
1285 6 5
|
Certain disorders lend themselves to poetics.
|
1105 6 5
|
you are on a missing boat in the middle Of a fogged out notion of some sort. A no nonsense paddle could be made out Of something as intangible as an Incoming wave. This could also be a Floating thought up map, man. In…
|
1649 6 6
|
As military tears soaked into hymnbook pages
|
211 6 4
|
|
1151 6 5
|
A nuclear-plant fuel rod engineer, Dimitri Kastrotov, had an axe to grind, so invented an atomic deterrent, to counterbalance mankind. He targeted the filthy rich, greedy sons of a bitch, breeding war, weapons and nukes at a reckless fever pitch After …
|
1528 6 4
|
|
1155 6 5
|
|
1896 6 6
|
The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.
|
795 6 6
|
His hands are old
But still function
As hands
|
1335 6 1
|
I’m trying to get this said, this piece of fact. If I am a person who can own something, then that something that I own is not me, not me as a person. I do not own my foot, my foot is my own. It’s like a whatsit, a semantic distinction I’m trying to
|
1836 6 1
|
Somewhere along the line he had also become a junkie, so he had a plastic bottle filled with methadone. I took a swig of that as we decided to jump in a cab and go to a dance club. It was a total shit-hole...
|
1551 6 4
|
There were days in my youth when, through no fault of their own, my parents could not drive me the seven mile trip to my elementary school. When I got older they bought me a bike and that proved duly adequate as conveyance. But when I was six years in age
|
1318 6 3
|
It was that pink lipstick found
on the end of that brown filter
yeah, think it was an Old Gold
|
1270 6 4
|
I am the boy with the olive skin who takes pictures of lewd sex acts performed by nobodies on stage at the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana.
|
1804 6 0
|
|
992 6 3
|
I returned to Minnesota from Montreal a week ago to realize that my sweetheart in Manhattan had hired a Ukrainian escort.
|
1307 6 0
|
Velvet answered the door in a red leather dress that was made with just about enough material to make a wallet, and looking like a long limbed drink of water calling out to a thirsty man.
|
1279 6 6
|
It’s Independence Day. But I’m not feeling independent.
|
1889 6 4
|
You're auditioning women to replace Gabrielle.
|
130 6 5
|
|
1752 6 5
|
At age eleven, I murder the coffee table. I gouge with every available implement: thumbtacks, Lefty scissors, the plastic hand of my Barbie accomplice (who really should have known better). It is a slow death. In the end, there is nowhere to hide the body. When I am…
|
1948 6 1
|
“Your children are beautiful,” she said, handing back his wallet after removing several bills. Her mouth was fringed by bitten-off melon lipstick, a calm kind of mad. She told him to call her Sally, “like the song McCartney rips his lungs on.” She…
|
1286 6 2
|
If you've ever cleaned house because a death is coming,you know it's the same as any other kind of cleaning.Wipe the tables.Pick up the floor.Sweep the crumbs under the carpet.For later.And for the ants.It's different, too.Because you're floating.On caffeine.On muffled…
|