1594 5 1
|
Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...
|
1594 0 0
|
The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
|
1594 6 5
|
I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…
|
1594 10 6
|
|
1594 21 14
|
I don't believe in symbols
but there's a hole
in my living room window
in the shape of a bird
|
1594 13 12
|
Forty years later he was still her Romeo, she his Juliet.
|
1593 10 2
|
Saturday morning, and I’m pushing the old truck a little, chasing retreating bands of cloud shadows along a winding hilltop road.
|
1593 1 1
|
1. Poor grammar does not sleep. 2. We'll never finish every idea we have. 3. No matter how hard you try, you still might make it into my book
|
1593 3 2
|
"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
|
1593 0 0
|
Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.
|
1593 26 6
|
Closed gate without fences
|
1593 2 1
|
The leaves were meaningless because they were no longer connected to the trees.
|
1593 6 2
|
It was only two days before Christmas. Jonathan remembered his mother crying.
|
1593 0 0
|
"You look awfully familiar," said one of the corrupt oil company execs to the dark-haired man with the sunglasses and big sideburns.
|
1593 3 1
|
It's London Zoo and ten minutes to closing time. The clock walks in and out of cages. I love you baby when you laugh like that at monkeys.Penguin and pelican, wing in wing, approaching. It's some bird act, I know. Two birds from nowhere. One flies, one walks.The zoo…
|
1593 4 3
|
“106 more miles,” she said.
|
1593 11 6
|
On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
|
1593 4 4
|
My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.
|
1593 3 2
|
Von Meckel had us all go out and paint this huge red square around the Red Diaper Baby factory. Then he held a big naming rally, at noon, during our lunch break. We weren’t allowed to eat our sandwiches. There was all this pomp and circumstance. We were
|
1593 8 3
|
Every ten days, the Decadent Sisters assembled for dinner. Although raised together, they were each very different...
|
1593 0 0
|
This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.
|
1592 3 3
|
Excelsior: A Poem in Nine Parts Preface: Musings on a Lighthouse by an Eastern Isle (Suggested by a painting by Mario Larrinaga) It is bright tonight; this plain, displaced from place In Time's broad flight, yields…
|
1592 1 1
|
Published in Exquisite CorpseI…
|
1592 3 2
|
How long have you been waiting for me? How long?
|
1592 2 0
|
The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.
|
1592 11 7
|
the swarthy terror network
|
1592 2 0
|
You beckon me with an aperitif.
The Kir Royal tingles, its bubbles tickling my nose.
Its subtle black courant pulls me into your smile.
I drink from your lips the champagne-tingle of your kiss.
|
1592 3 3
|
Tell me everything about yourself, if I could care, I can pretend, let me pretend.
|
1592 1 0
|
If you work with the public, you're stressed. Unreasonable customers. Demanding bosses. Reduced staffing. I love my job, but the workload is tough and getting tougher. What can we do to keep our spirits up?Play Customer Appreciation! It's simple. Assign a point value…
|
1592 0 0
|
Dominic would show them all. That stupid "Welcome to Bessemer" sign was his. It was the pride of the whole damn town. No other target would do.It was the dead of night, and Dominic rode his bike to the town line. He briefly considered spray painting something vulgar over…
|