1598 5 5
|
. . . did you notice yesterday afternoon how for an entire quarter hour five o’clock itself looked for a few minutes as if it would never arrive?
|
159894
|
The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
|
1597148
|
And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
|
159721
|
For the residents of Oak Morrow, entropy is an art form. They break their own windows and crash their cars into their living rooms. Grannies and pets can usually scoot out of the way before they’re crushed under the juggernaut of creativity.
|
159711
|
writing because it's the only drug i havesick on sadnessas the weight of the moment crumbling around me comes down some sweet second inspires…
|
159798
|
We've come this far. That's all we know. We've watched others reach their abrupt ends. They've given us this exact moment and we've taken it from them, sometimes without thinking. It's time for the next communication. I know what concern is…
|
159775
|
The man and the lady loved to laugh. She would tuck her hair back and lay her head on his stomach after dinner while watching old scary movies on Thursday nights. She would listen to his stomach digest the food and laugh then, he would laugh and…
|
159798
|
This is the parallel room I keep my heart in. Got a solo fireplace. I don't want to invite anything else into the story. It doesn't matter if no one knocks on the door ever again. I'm too shy to hope for much more than a couple of Interesting shadows…
|
15971210
|
published in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review.
|
15971817
|
Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.
|
159642
|
The heat was different in the 90's Car rides played all the right tunes, and early, Saturday mornings echoed explosions of excitement, and neighborly visits Apartments; one beige body; filled our LA slum, street Sprinklers colored the hot…
|
1596146
|
Marge didn't eat lamb or pork.
|
1596109
|
Strike me down hard, bolt of pure blue, laser focus square, blast of hydrogen nuclear, knock me on the keister, blind me down, oh Lordy Lord Lord.
|
1596108
|
When I stumbled upon evidence that the man I'd loved and trusted for 20 years had a secret girlfriend for the past 10 of those years, he tried to deny it.“We never had sex!” he told me. And I believed him. For about two minutes.“You never…
|
159630
|
His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
|
159644
|
Both his parents saved their pent up Puritan pasts to fill his ears with brimstone clichés.
"Idle time is the devil's playground", he would tell me, scrunching up his face, stuffing it full of meat lovers pizza.
|
159695
|
The border crossing at El Paso will soon be arriving. I'm apprehensive about Mexico, all the violence.
|
159600
|
Solomon just makes people leak. Literally.
|
15961311
|
As I go by I see five, six high school kids standing on the corner waiting for the bus. They are huddled together like a bunch of ducks....
|
159674
|
|
1596107
|
I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...
|
159676
|
He leans in close then, close enough that when he speaks, his words tiptoe out and tuck me in.
|
1596114
|
My spooky cat got out again. Under the deck she ran. Out came the hose that chased her about. Fur spiked, tail pointing, yowling, she hissed at me, and back in the house she pranced. It's been two days now. She slithers out for food after…
|
159642
|
I imagined the crystals in my mouth.
Salt flowers blooming on my tongue.
|
159544
|
The last of your tenuous septum dissolves when you press the nozzle of the neti pot against it.
|
159542
|
Looking with his ears, Hearing with his eyes, Not really mute, he simply didn't know how to speak.One word, then another string together,a crack spreads across an ice covered lake. Now there is an open channel, and his thoughts roil the…
|
159587
|
Tender veterinarian, even if you weren't so tall, or your eyes so warm, or your fingers so long, or if you didn't bend over my sick cat with such astounding grace, or shoot those quick, intense glances at me, I'd have woven dreams while in your uncommon presence. Vulnerable…
|
159533
|
He was a sushi chef, and he would spend hours in their kitchen practicing his knife skills, and the speed with which he can put that there and this in that and so on; and she would see him on the floor most mornings, still wearing that dirty, tattered ban
|
1595103
|
When she was nineteen, she began to brew a baby in her belly. She named it, and sang to it, and organized the leftover hand-me-downs that hadn't been worn ragged through by the first seven sets of recipients.
|
159562
|
The water rolls gently this evening, barely touching my toes before retreating. The tide has been going out for over an hour and already there are several victims – crustaceans, spider crabs, minnows.
|
