"I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."

“Don’t you wish it always ended that way? The right people fall in love? Romance leads to marriage? God, that was a great movie.”

not the sky

But Von Rotten was up in Penny’s room right this minute, either banging her or haranguing her, or worse, both. I envisioned him with her, and my guts began twisting and turning, and my insides fell into my shoes. What had I done? She was being held capt

I'm completely naked in an unheated basement, about 40 first year university students, most of them female, are staring at my ridiculous waif-like body.

we are tired, you and I.

Also in development,/ the anatomically perfect robot/ pool boy and naughty maid,

He thought the scarab was bad luck. I knew too little about omens to argue.

She burst Into the glass shop

I am abandoned to the mundane/ calculations of a small mind/ trapped by small considerations

We were just as bourgeois as Bloomingdale’s, one generation past canned ravioli dinners with cheap white bread.

People crawling up out of the chimney, then onto the roof, then sliding down it and off over the edge disappearing from view.

A Body Divided: Memoir 1 When I came back home, after coming down with polio, everything had changed for me. I'd been gone for forty-five long days and nights. But it was Halloween, a time very nearly sacred for children in the Midwest, and it broug

She heard mortar fire, whose percussive power rose above the tapping typewriter keys. A perspiration of terror broke on Loretta’s brow, under her arms. Then suddenly, the whistling of shells.

Does flight exhilarate the sparrows