1831 4 1
|
Steam rolls out of the bathroom as Mr. Larson opens the door with a white towel around his waist. Pepper strolls up to him and purrs as she rubs her long, gray tail against his tanned legs."Hey, girl.” He runs his coarse, scarred fingers through the cat's soft coat.…
|
1831135
|
The Fuddy-Duddy Writer does not do wit.
|
18312119
|
I once read a book of warnings.
|
183130
|
Shannon refused to jump from the castle drawbridge to the gigantic truck tire sunk halfway down in the playground quicksand. He just stood there-arms folded across his chest, bony knees sticking out from beneath ratty cutoffs-in silence, looking to Rollie
|
183100
|
you choose to be mine
when you take hold of my hand -
silently, i'm yours
|
1830159
|
“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "
|
1830122
|
i miss you/
at times unbearably/
a dull ache that won’t quit
|
1830136
|
Occasionally, I look down and spit.
Not caring that it originates from
the deepest hole in my lungs,
|
1830118
|
But it all works out. I guess. Truth is something I'm sure I've never seen before, but the more time goes on, the Less I'm inclined to believe in it. Still I don't want To be one of those giving the finger to God And begging for a showdown with an…
|
183082
|
Looking for meaning in spaces between words.
|
18301213
|
The moonlight news is brutal
|
1830101
|
I told you that I have homicidal urges that alternate with ones of the suicidal kind. You flicked an imaginary speck of dust from your fat, fleshy forefinger with your ultra-flexible, wimpy thumb.
|
183021
|
Mower hits a rock and the blades scream.
|
183010
|
And so the man-faced boy grew alone, knowing little of kindness and love. As he grew, he explored the limits of his cold world; crawling in dusty nappies, toddling in hand-me-down rags, at last walking on worn sandals, haunting the edges of human life loo
|
1829146
|
I was a six year old with no bike. Only the males in my familyhad that privilege. So one morning I got up very early, before the older siblings awoke, crept out the back porch door where Iknew there would be two bikes in the yard just waiting for me and my…
|
18291613
|
Suddenly a hand shot up on the other side of a hedge. “I’ll have one of those!” cried someone who remained invisible.
|
182900
|
|
182942
|
He finds a beach ball and recreates humanity upon it. Kicking it down the shore he wonders how the little people must feel about each other. To place them on such a tiny globe almost seems unfair.
|
182950
|
The sound of it wasn't right in his head yet. When he said it aloud he didn't really believe it.
|
18292112
|
It is a well-known fact that my wife sleeps around. There. I said it and now everyone knows that I too know about my wife. Let me just tell you this one thing; she has her reasons. You ask me how I know that she has her reasons, but who would know better than…
|
182920
|
She suggested just moving in together. A lot less constrained by convention she, on occasion, did not wear a bra.
|
182931
|
The orchid trembled on its long stem
|
182932
|
He kept the lawn mowed at the perfect height. He mowed it twice a week to one inch. Some weeks he mowed it a third time for good measure.
|
1829148
|
You always complained that Christmas/
ruined your birthday/
sister.
|
18292118
|
After the funeral there was a luncheon in the church basement.
|
182912
|
|
1828127
|
Emma and I were in a shabby part of town with vacant lots and overgrown yards, and I wondered if something would happen as we loped beside Tom, who was slow-witted and 21. We were 13 . . .
|
182854
|
Jerrod's lips and tongue were like slabs of bologna someone shook in Kirsten’s face as she hit the turn signal.
Kirsten was proud of herself. She'd been taking it well and she was pretty sure her real feelings weren’t poking through.
|
182885
|
|
182800
|
". . . with the impact of a 18-wheeler jack-knifed into a Mini-Cooper as it hits the surface."
|
