1597 1 0
|
|
159764
|
"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
|
1597107
|
The tech turns off the music. The capsule blares. I am in Jurassic Park with Sam Neill. I am Timmy, descending the electrified fence, almost toast. I am Karen Silkwood, a deer in the headlights, then showering off plutonium. A garbage truck is compacting
|
159765
|
Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
|
159611
|
"Shit," said the Charge Nurse. "Not again."
|
1596215
|
I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.
|
159654
|
The war they wage fills everything with holes.
|
159643
|
We all need a place to stay.
|
159667
|
1. Weeds of the World (Unite!) We invade the invaders and they invade us, these little Blooming weeds. They raise five flowers and let them blow Into the winds like sheets of stars. All of us Steer by their turning tide. All of us will eventually …
|
159630
|
The Snowman grinned malevolently as the Sugar Plum fairies shook in their tiny powdered boots."Santa has one more hour and then you're all marshmallow toasts!" the Snowman said. He laughed and he laughed. His evil plan? He wanted the key to time delivered to him personally…
|
159610
|
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…
|
159640
|
When I heard that my brother was going to get married, I was more surprised than anything, but also awed by his courage. Our sister, named Baah Baah during a particularly bad recreational substance binge by our fun-loving, aristocratic parents, Nancy and
|
159664
|
When he smashed his plate in my lap, the dog hung around, licking my wrist and hoping that he would get some milk, too. With my luck, he'd jump in the pool, getting grass clippings all over the edge. My nails were sharp that day, I had to cut them, and I did while…
|
15962714
|
Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
|
159601
|
I followed the curve of the etched Koi, its filigree scales arcing across a taut midriff toward the indent of her pierced navel, where a collection of water lilies drifted on the surface of her skin.
|
1596109
|
Catherine, after another haunted, bewildering morning wondered if there might be a way to hide from her nightmares. Was there a way to trick them? Shouldn't she try? She drove over the bridge, something she didn't often do, to buy…
|
15961817
|
They meant no harm when they flooded farms in its swirls and eddies
|
159653
|
Rose lifted her 55-year-old legs until they were perpendicular to the bed and admired how girlish they looked. It gave her the sexy legs of a 20-year old, if the morning light was right and she squinted a bit.
|
159610
|
Three teeth. You can pick them out if you hit pause just right. Probably not a person in the entire valley who hasn’t seen that video from the Eastern Cheerleading Finals. They even showed the tape on the eleven o’clock news in Scranton, my face ci
|
159661
|
I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
|
159631
|
On the news they said that there was a baby born in a stable. There are rumours that he may be the son of God but initial reports are unconfirmed.
|
159632
|
...Heroin. It helped them get through the tricks and sucked up their flesh.
|
159631
|
Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
|
15951210
|
We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
|
15951410
|
The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
|
1595126
|
My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music
|
159552
|
“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
|
159532
|
"Why, before the summer has passed
You won’t remember her name. . ."
|
159531
|
"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
|
159521
|
Looming ahead was another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops, I'd say something that embarrasses my wife in front of her girlfriends. Or so she claims.
|
