1942 0 0
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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them
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194200
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This is how we catch up. I write something down, and you read me quietly. In a year's time you will remind me, though I would have forgotten. I check to see if maybe you have put up a new song, every once in a while, but you don't sing as well as you used to.What has…
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194211
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Once, when I had not talked to you in a long time, I woke with your name in my mouth.
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194263
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“I need an ambulance, we found a baby in a ditch.”
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194242
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I'd been living in Boston, but, on a whim, flew to London, England. Soon I was working as support staff for the actor Alan Bates and his wife, Victoria, on a movie called "The Shout", shooting in Devon.
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194232
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Out here in nearly nowhere I met this man. About him I know something something, and no one can tell me otherwise.
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194200
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I found my patch by accident whilst out picking medicinals ta cover a load o' dead constrictors. I tested the patch in the traditional way an' got a bit stoned on jes' a nibble o' a fresh sprout. Course, everyone knows the sprouts 're more concentrated t
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194100
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A burst of mud spilled out over Jonas and scooped his body up like a raging river. It spun his body over in a rebound rather than pushing him through the door.
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194162
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It was as if a car bomb went off in Beaver Cleaverville.
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194153
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Even though it was late November, it still bloomed. Extravagantly. Obviously it had no shame, obviously it reveled in its own beauty.
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194100
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"And secondly, it’s never bing bing bing with you. It’s like, bing bang bongity bumbity bum yadda yadda bla bla bla.” Sam stopped short and glanced down at his shoes. He knew he’d gone too far.
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194121
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Terry worked in a factory out in Northlake where she added a little squirt of milk and another little squirt of cream to those tiny half-and-half coffee creamers you find at every motel in the country. The owner of that factory hired only women to work
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194100
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Incredibly he began to picture in his mind a scene not related at all to his frenzied search but of a huge plate of apple pie a la mode with the vanilla ice cream melting in streams like cool lava down the side of the pie and off of the plate.
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194022
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“I can’t remember if it goes in or out,” was the reply.
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194095
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“…And his smell. That Brett smell. It might become my smell…”
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194010
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Gloomy night slippery as snake and duck.
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194073
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A bawdy secretary languishes behind the farmer, translating the squealing gray matter and scratching her rectangular nose obsessively.
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194086
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...I stared at my good dog with the same entreaty I saw in her eyes. Save us. Please.
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1940124
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was yesterday’s dawn breaking in the high sky/ meant for us?
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194022
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Forty years is a very long time to live with someone.Ellen stood motionless at the curtainless kitchen window, staring at the autumnal woods, looking for signs of the various animals that frequented her property. She had done this every morning and every evening since Jim…
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19402214
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the signature of God/
consigning everything/
to the saturating energies of time.
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194043
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fifteen together with a little streetart slamtrick
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193910
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I’ve been here before.
it wasn’t you though—
it was her before you,
and then she before her …
before you.
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19391512
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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193994
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193963
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I often thought about touching those slippery flames between my thumb and index finger.
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193964
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My cousin had put them up last year, showed me when we stood on her bed as her fingers pointed, traced over the outlines, then turned out the lights, so that I could see them glow.
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193962
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It was already 3:30 PM. Where had all the time gone? Linda looked up from her computer monitor over at Carlos, who had his face intently pointed at his. "We have to go soon," she said. "We want to avoid rush hour traffic.""Where did we put the address?" Carlos answered, not…
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19392018
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1939208
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The music, Antonín Dvořák's 'New World Symphony,' the second movement, 'Largo,' immediately alters my mood.
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