1639 2 1
|
Winter makes me reconsider.
|
16391511
|
The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
|
163900
|
The sun was at the edge of the earth. The shadows around Ayane and her friends brought the creature closer.
|
163911
|
Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.
|
163930
|
my molars are dancing, tekka-tekking to the strung-out paint can groove of my heart.
|
163966
|
The Misses Moses by Brad Watson from Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives The Moses sisters lived together, alone, in the fine old brick house near downtown where they…
|
163900
|
We knew this year would be different because we bought bikinis. We had never worn bikinis before. Our swimsuits had always been shiny one-pieces with stripes, or polka dots, or tiny yellow fish. Not this year. It was a hot summer and the department store was overly …
|
163900
|
They were working on the factory floor when they died, the auspices of mayhem filtering out to a host of ravens gleaning the neighboring fields. Clouds of them fled the scene around the time of the incident turning the day into twilight…
|
163911
|
On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.
|
163911
|
empty wine bottles, and a single abandoned boot
|
16391312
|
We discussed the epic poems/
and agreed to write a new one.
|
163931
|
Your favorite nickname
existed only in the bright red
cherry smoldering
at the end of your smoke.
|
163822
|
Mo Dean woke up sober.
And tired.
Tired of life, of soiled pants, rash, vomit, and whiskey sweat. Tired of holes in his pockets and blisters on his feet, of hanging signs asking for dimes and getting only pennies. And most of all, tired of the police.
|
163800
|
“So, do you still think I'm hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks. This is never a good question to answer, much less entertain. I know this as surely as I know anything. Still, let's break it down. I am married. Jenny is…
|
163800
|
"Do you know how long they've waited for you?" Elle asked. "At first, it was every day after school, waiting at the windows. They wouldn't go play with friends because they wanted to be here, in case you returned. Then, they used to believe you would come
|
163851
|
Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
|
163800
|
Gravity? What does that have to do with writing or with this improbable tether of blue marbles?
|
163854
|
The war they wage fills everything with holes.
|
163874
|
Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
|
163854
|
Outside it’s still raining. We’ve gone through three cans of Guinness each. I’m waiting for drunkenness to germinate so that I can take him home and fondle what I imagine will be a very slim dick. A Slim Jim. When I chuckle to myself, he thinks I’m still
|
163831
|
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…
|
163801
|
Well, just put your hand on my knee, alone in my room, perv, unasked-and-unflirted for, go get a date, you coward, you limp-dicked male bitch . . .
|
163843
|
We all need a place to stay.
|
163896
|
|
163898
|
It turned out Eel’s brain corrects for imbalance, and he can only feel danger for a moment or two.
|
1638108
|
|
163841
|
"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
|
163783
|
|
163754
|
“Sixty-seven responses!” Al Edelstein announces at the first meeting of the search committee. It has been just two weeks since Rabbi Feldman dropped dead of a heart attack and just a week since the congregation ran the ad: “Help Wanted: Orthodox Rabbi. Im
|
163744
|
The man wore a bowler hat and stood on an open patch of grass, with a pyramid-shaped stack of baseballs at his feet.
|
