Lighter-than-air flight was back. The skies of the coast were alight with colorful balloons, dirigibles, and zeppelins tethered to their docking towers along the beach, the huge aircraft bobbing in the breeze up and down the coast for miles,…

She persisted. “How long have we been here?” A note of anger crept into his voice. “How long? How long? Why …, why ….” He swallowed hard, realized he had forgotten.

It was Brad, for short; or so he would say. But really his name was Bradford, and he was a writer. He had almost always lived in New York. He was only half-white. His mother had run away with a black man in the sixties. Her father had told her to never come back to…

there she was, this beautiful duck with her 4 beautiful babies, under my bush.

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so one time the Holy Ghost come down to Stumptown

When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?

The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet

The vampire donated floodlights so the children could play ballgames at night. The lights came on but the dugouts remained vacant. The vampire sat alone in the bleachers. “Sometimes I am less than the sum of my parts,” he said to the sum of his parts.

Put blisters on your fingers and Put plasters on your head but Put peppers on your privates and You’ll wish that you were dead!

Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.

I will not tell you that your anger is wrong, child.

your leather jacket zip has left a row of teethmarks on her arm

He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.

He checks the bedrooms first, then the hallway, followed by the living room and the bathrooms. When he can't find you he takes to calling out, daddy, I'm sure the neighbors hear.