1760 9 8
|
All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
|
175985
|
I'll never be a Republican Megadonor or a Doomed Aviatrix. But I'm okay with that.
|
1759168
|
Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.
|
175996
|
A horizon shrinks a burden until it’s a seagull getting fat off vinegar fries. I’m in love with the way your mouth moves when you aren’t talking. When it fills with salt.
|
175910
|
[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.
|
17592011
|
The box thuds at your feet: mug, plant, wedding photo, the 25-year pen.
|
175900
|
There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.
|
175952
|
But I still don't have my underwear in the right place.
|
175953
|
The Black Thing spread over the room, eating away his mother's face as well as the doctors and nurses who dashed in a frenzy around him until they too were swallowed in the black singing cloud.
|
175943
|
"Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut."
|
17591516
|
He didn't hide it. He told her he was a mortician when he called. He had responded to her ad in the Lonely Hearts section of the newspaper.
|
175953
|
My sweet baby angel has baby hair Baby angel has a golden cross lit looking at the crystal pig and kind mare The drowning unicorn comes from the waves in fits. My sweet baby angel has baby talkBaby angel has a diamond shape scarburied heart shaped…
|
17591811
|
It could be fun,/
with the guns, explosives, Molotov/
Cocktails and all,
|
175910
|
I know this is going to sound crazy, possibly because it is crazy, but still, please hear me out. I'm a relatively sane person. Sane as any of you, or I was. Just, what I'm saying is that anything that happened to me could happen to you, and you might do the same things I…
|
175953
|
"...you are a freak of nature..."
|
175896
|
I have always admired flat-chested women.
|
175876
|
didn't know how to do it
just tried to squeeze on the teats
didn't know I had to grab up on the udder and pull
Unca Ole laughed
|
1758139
|
Writing as a form of imaginative hatred
|
175876
|
On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.
|
17581513
|
San Bruno avenue, six shops in eight blocks. Those Vietnamese ladies thrive on the pedicure trade.
|
175885
|
I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
|
17581617
|
Sharpie marked, Free Still Works
|
175889
|
Throw them up there but try to make it look tidy. Try to become a little bit paranoid, just enough that you slightly overestimate how much they think of you at all.
|
175832
|
She looks exactly like my sister, though I do not have a sister.
|
175897
|
They rise up, a sullen, sorrowful/
army of reproach, staring,//
stone-faced but eyed with fire.
|
175832
|
We fold it end over end, meeting in the middle where she takes it, and I let go...
|
175711
|
...the loving and very painful hurt of our daily sustenance
|
175700
|
Back when they were younger, David was always gushing about every little thing in his head, and his openness appealed to her as much as his muscular frame did. But after that year they spent apart, he was always ... smiling. Smiling and vague.
|
17571211
|
Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
|
175721
|
The chipping sound started around the time Susannah reached puberty. Not all at once, it was just now and then at first.“What's that noise?” she'd say, and everyone would cock their heads to listen. Her mother eventually took her to the doctor. He said it…
|
