There won't be dancing, anymore. That isn't true, that can't be true; but there is no floor to dance on, you know?

He brought me kisses from New York.

I am long of tooth, too, and when I go, maybe a box with my ashes inside will join the boxes containing the cats’ remains.

You could hear her coming from a long way off as she kept trying to catch her breath, like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones. But it was laughter, laughter that kept on filling up her belly from the inside, and she was having tr

When I no longer know you, what signal will you give to remind me that you and I once loved?

Alysia raised the staff over the huddle and together everyone created a barrier. The wind blew past them and the grey mist surrounded them.

Devoid of flesh and muscle, Composed of bone and air.

you are the most uptight pansy I have ever met

I knew a girl on Folly Island who took showers in water so hot her skin blushed pink rosettes.

and the smiles light the way when the wind blows the darkness

This may be too religious for you, as at first it was so with me. But I assure you, on my scholarly integrity, I have found the Genesis Serpent’s skin! Yes, that Genesis Serpent--though just a leftover piece of him,

“Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved to taunt him, itched for any chance they could get to fight.

He was almost dying when I reached the hospital. I walked past the open automatic sliding doors into the lobby, almost vacant except a few people milling around, the nurses fighting sleep behind the desks while waiting for their shift to end.

I thought the Ferris wheel was dumb. All it did was give you a high altitude view of the little Minnesota town where I had grown up.

They were press­ing her about the money, it was always about the money.