1566 3 2
|
“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.
|
156631
|
At five a family relative took my life away from me and no one cared
|
156685
|
When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…
|
156655
|
What does she have / that I don’t have / that I can’t buy / for myself?
|
15661913
|
but I pretend again I've kept the prairie/
out, have battled back the smoke and dirt
|
156621
|
the Griot Grrrls stopped playing their distinctive brand of power progressive acoustic worldfunk at open-mics around campus
|
156686
|
|
156663
|
There was something about her eyes that he couldn't shake.
He stood in line, waiting for his chicken finger tenders and one large size 32 oz. cola. No salad (a childhood aversion he had never abandoned), and no mashed potatoes. Friday night and the eve
|
156684
|
When Roger was small his two favorite toys were a tiny, squat doll called Care and a rubber millipede.
|
156620
|
Last night aliens invaded our dishwasher.
|
156600
|
We all ran out of the house into the communal garden without fences. There stood Von Rotten with a smoking rifle in his hands, and our mascot Digger lying on his side, limp. We all looked at each other in disbelief.
|
15661714
|
This morning I heard her downstairs trying to get away silently. I knew she would write a short goodbye note. I knew it would tell me her reason for leaving —she had to be free of my indifference. I dressed, finished my coffee, backed out of the driveway and went to…
|
15652114
|
Walking to class, Paula routinely fishes around in her purse to be sure the condom she thinks of as a close friend, even naming it Rhonda, is in there to help her avoid a pregnancy yet, even so, Paula admits that sometimes she daydreams in that boring economics class,…
|
156535
|
I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…
|
156552
|
We lay in what we have made, minute fleshy bullets in the target we have made.
|
15654024
|
What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.
|
156500
|
Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…
|
156565
|
I'm sitting on the B-line toward Park, and there is a woman with the same black bob as Mad TV's Miss Swan, and she is leaning the whole front of her body against the whole pole in front of me, and even though there is plenty of space around her, she is pressed up…
|
156554
|
But no matter how we died, we all end up here, in the Meadowlark Children's Cemetery.
|
156522
|
I think fat will just appear, like a narcotics cop at my door, or something.
|
156532
|
Scientists have determined that a tiny freshwater organism known as the "bdelloid rotifer" gave up sex 40 million years ago. And you thought the spark had gone out of your marriage.
|
156565
|
the names / she carried (within)
|
15653020
|
We are moments away from the end, and it feels like it.
|
156524
|
We got our holes in our hearts bundled onto soft wrapping cloth just like the gentleman on TV said; with smiles we set out towards our matching end of the same old stories. That's just the way…
|
156530
|
His mouth went dry, but he managed to say, coolly, “Just how would you like me to do that, Sandra?”
|
1565189
|
|
156520
|
At first it was just holding hands and talking about Ricky's condition. Then it was leaning into each other on the sofa, Ben whispering my name into my hair, me wanting to put my hand on his thigh.
|
15651410
|
Oh to be young and vigorous.
|
156433
|
Let's buy this robin's egg blue furniture. Okay. Let's buy this album full of wren songs. Uh, okay.
|
156421
|
Librarians love me,
you want to know why?
I don’t dog-ear pages,
I don’t even try.
|
