1608 8 7
|
The first thing I saw was a sandal, but it didn't exactly look priestly. It was golden and glowing, and the foot it was strapped to had red painted nails. The straps wrapped around her ankles, and up her slender leg, tied off in a bow below the knee.
|
160831
|
"I have a prehensile tongue," he said matter-of-factly. "I know how to make you feel good." Such confidence, I say. Prove it.We're sitting on the couch, watching a movie, but not paying attention to it. We sit side-by-side, my leaning into him, and his arm is around me,…
|
160862
|
|
160874
|
The Judge waited for the perfect wave.
|
160863
|
—Frank, how is your sex life?
|
16081612
|
He was losing his fight with
malaria, but you would never
know it from his dreams
|
160733
|
I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.
|
160782
|
Marge bought the rug on-line.
|
16071510
|
No jagged bits of crust were thrust up/
through the prairie’s black gumbo/
to give us cataclysmic mountain views.
|
160700
|
“Hello, Cheryl” the voice on the other end of the phone replied. It was strong but raspy, yet quiet and controlled. The fellow sounded like he had a frog in his throat.
“How do you know my name?” she asked.
“I know a lot of things about y
|
160711
|
Barbie wore only her clear pink heels...
|
160787
|
You are an heiress to drunks.
The statues of your forefathers stagger,
memorialized by gravity, their faces
half-lit eternally, as they reach into refrigerators
for another something
to keep away the cold empty.
|
160795
|
My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.
|
160720
|
With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.
|
1607189
|
|
160720
|
|
160733
|
Things looked way too normal to be normal. The cold, gliding black eyed swans never once straying far from each other's wake, the cute blue jeaned lovers everyone secretly watched carefully picking their trickling way over small odd rocks and…
|
160789
|
Mr. Blumberg and I sat side by side on a small couch in the family room. He was watching a football game on TV.
|
160720
|
She dips a toothpick in ink, running prick over paper, simply to prove herself wrong.
|
160700
|
Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.
|
160700
|
Still as the knife on the counter there still. Like mothballs in a chest. One with clear bags and newspaper clippings and your scarf inside it. The baby girl could put a mothball in her mouth and suck it like a penny. The way too close to a light bulb bur
|
160643
|
The print is not ideal, it's true.
|
160676
|
The note was a lie, multiplied through each member of its potential audience....
|
160601
|
I have cherished the memory of that meal since and have sought out Indian restaurants all over the world. San later told me that the best Indian food was to be had in London
|
160684
|
When hadrons collide they’re not always Swiss. They may be cheese or neutral but that isn’t of my concern.
Look at them, touch them, feel them, the quirks of the antiquarks, masonic mesons, baron baryon.
|
160643
|
Write power
like a purring kitten
eyes wide
without an idea of exactly
how small he is.
|
160600
|
It was like Azure was dictating the tempo of a song. Fluid in motion, and a story told.
|
160652
|
Do you remember who I am yet?
I remember the first time you made love to me. It appears I was one of the lucky ones … it wasn’t in a car, it wasn’t in your Dad’s boat, underwater, or any other weird place you've written about. It was actual
|
160641
|
@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } …
|
160663
|
someone left graffiti on the billboard
over: "God's a hard
act to follow"; the one that made the news
|
