1618 10 6
|
Post No Bills.
The Crouton Mavens.
United Burglars Union.
Crockpot Mistakes.
The Heavy Doors.
Fire In the Yurt.
Douche Baguettes.
Upsy-Daisey.
Schmazelhood.
Sidetrackia.
Flotsam and Jetsam.
Argyle Sox.
Roachmobile.
The Adulterer’
|
161811
|
Normally I would have never drank such a wine, but it was late on a Friday evening and the bottle was on the house...
|
161832
|
Today's girls all look the same. Angie isn't even sure if one leaves and a new one enters. They blend together like paper-dolls, clinging to one another, connected, braided. This morning, while one of them lies with her legs in a V, the alarm goes off
|
161700
|
"Only the gods in heaven can do such things," he shouted back, his voice hoarse and parched from no water for two days. "Wouldn't your God have saved you by now if he had the power?"
|
161753
|
Hunger only makes people hungry, but bad hair can ruin your whole day.
|
161744
|
I think of our first morning in front of the mirror and the hairbrush that we shared—the hairs in it brown from you, blonde from me. I miss this day and when I cannot sleep, I watch your window from my room until your light goes out. Sometimes, I can se
|
1617117
|
Prozac, Lithium, shock treatment,
a time machine, or to ask
Oz that you grow a new heart,
whatever it takes.
|
161720
|
A spark is a gouged word: stewed to annihilate, scrambled, botched in a pot to dry. Lead us to the quiver, let us tremble. Noon, we paw nails under rugs, run fingertips over books, rip cupboards from hinges and spiral open the machine, for the creature is near the roof or…
|
16171814
|
Also in development,/
the anatomically perfect robot/
pool boy and naughty maid,
|
161663
|
In his fridge he had one piece of meat. He hadn’t been expecting me. I cooked it for him and watched him eat.
|
16163818
|
|
161620
|
His velvet mouth, shaped perfectly to intertwine with hers, teases the space between them until its caress finds her.
|
161612
|
Moon Boy sits atop the hill's crest and watches Moon Girl.
|
1616105
|
'Do you feel that, my little one?' Stillness. Calm. I felt the baby move her tiny little feet and smiled.
|
161610
|
A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.
|
1616109
|
|
161600
|
I went out behind Parker's house and saw Darrell's tent set up in the grass. The flaps of the pup tent were open. I could see him through the mosquito netting. He had a Coleman lamp burning and lay on his back in his underwear on top of his sleeping bag.
|
161644
|
At any moment, she'll come outside to pick up the day’s newspaper. He can see it resting beneath the blooming crape myrtle, its plastic wrapper glistening with dew.
|
16161411
|
The beachy slope
never draws such goliaths.
|
161653
|
Our mothers died in childbirth. Taken in by the village, our new mothers taught us to wave at the river boats, to sell our trinkets to tourists. They offered us coins of a foreign currency and little pathetic smiles. By nightfall, our fingers bled. Then came…
|
161555
|
Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently, Train 663 leaves the station, headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are, confusingly, called The Keystone.If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to…
|
161597
|
Dark, green grass covered the pasture like millions of tiny fingers swaying in the heat.
|
161521
|
Mower hits a rock and the blades scream.
|
161533
|
Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.
|
16151010
|
I had some words, but the truth is they don't mean a thing because whatever it is I was trying to say to you always crumbles to the ground in front of you. I had some words, but the bullying wind was stronger than me and ripped them…
|
161554
|
|
161400
|
When I finally went back to school in the fourth grade, after coming down with polio, my classmates were very welcoming, though I couldn't go outside and run around like them yet at recess or lunch time. That would come, just not right away. But it was th
|
161454
|
The first engine arrived and a fireman heavy with gear stumbled from the side railing.
|
161400
|
Well, it was on a Monday and you know how bad Mondays are to begin with. I had been up real late the night before playin’ poker and drinkin’. I was thinking that after a couple of hours the hangover would wear off and I’d be okay, but instead I s
|
1614127
|
my space heater throws a pale orange light
my white candles flicker in the middle of the night
|
