1903 27 8
|
They discovered the baby in the grass, under the snapping cotton sheets.
|
190387
|
"I've been on eight blind dates in three days," she tells me. I can't quite work the math out, but somehow the combination of her wildly undulating eyebrows and harsh vocal tone manage to convince me."I can play the kazoo," I tell her. It's my one saving grace--the thing…
|
19022417
|
His head was usually full of ah ha!, a luminescence that folded around obstacles like smoke.
|
190256
|
She told me one way to deal with it would be to put everything in a box and burn it.
|
1902107
|
The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.
|
190221
|
Beard of Bees
My father always used to say to me, he said "Son" (he called me son) "Son. Falling in love is easy. Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records is hard".
|
190250
|
How many of them, I'm wondering, are just going through the motions until the power goes out and never comes back on again? They've got to know the Americans will never let the city fall to the færies.
|
190274
|
“Lunge to your right,” the woman on the screen instructs. She is easily six-months pregnant but still looks fit and healthy. “Now show off your baby.” She centers herself, splays her arms, and thrusts her belly out towards us. “Lunge to the left. Now show
|
190100
|
|
190120
|
She’ll get a dog
a Weimaraner
I know
She’ll call him Alfie
after her first
two dogs
He’ll try to get up
on the bed
She’ll say, Alfie, no, no
But in the night
she will let him
so as not to be lonely
|
190100
|
In desperation, the city council imported a shaman to exorcise whatever demons had possessed the house.
|
190111
|
“I will become a respected novelist!” proclaimed Billy.
|
190111
|
This couldn’t be a bar; I was with my mother. It took a few seconds for the collision of senses to clear, and I realized the restaurant had not only one, but two flat screen televisions hung in their dining room, and a fake fire blazing in the fireplace.
|
190077
|
Tsunamis are quiet at first:
not one big wave but many
small injustices, so chaotic
all the pressing all the weight
of the noise, like a stone
holding you under.
|
1900169
|
homelessness, you called the lie,
|
1900136
|
And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...
|
190052
|
I think I’m the best Marilyn Monroe there ever was.
|
1900124
|
Stories Around People An Event Facebook lived in midtown, for there the people and windows shone like water. Though it would board the bus—1 day—and ride to the sea, where people said words like sea and where the city shone in the waves…
|
19001611
|
Is there a recipe for / lasting happiness?
|
1900135
|
Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
|
190054
|
The same night your best friend of two years called you up to tell you they don't want to think about you anymore was the same night you had stood silently, leaning, head against the mustard wall in your mom's boyfriend's house, stuck listening to Randy…
|
19001514
|
The rain pelted down, it got dark, and they couldn't see a thing. The wind roared like a thousand locomotives.
|
18992117
|
After breakfast, he dresses and heads / for the blackjack tables.
|
18992217
|
The world is full of dead dogs
|
189900
|
She wanted to have an eating disorder, but she liked food too much to stop eating it and hated the taste of vomit mixed with tooth paste.
|
189920
|
“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.
|
189966
|
4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
> > (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
|
1899911
|
I answered with my usual economy of words. If someone wants more, they must ask, and he did.
|
189931
|
[ETIQUETTE ... DECORUM ... BOUNDARIES ... BAH!]
|
189910
|
They gave Lee a bunch of morphine in the ambulance and he came to vaguely, murmuring shit about God and mermaids.
|
