1584 3 3
|
From this distance, he reminded me of a sleazy pink flamingo, waiting for feeding time at the zoo to deepen the timbre of his feathers and hint at the promise of a narcotic aviation before his commune of hens.
|
158441
|
Byron's achievement, certainly quite remarkable, is to have raised the drunken monologue to a literary form.
Edmund Wilson
|
15842016
|
The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
|
158433
|
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF ROBOTS!
|
158464
|
The cat wound itself around Megan’s neck, its purring curling through Megan’s consciousness. She was the cat and then herself, both things at once.
|
158430
|
…she smelled of sunflowers.
|
158442
|
The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
|
158477
|
"We're practicing," she signs, "for an earthquake."
|
158464
|
"You'll be alright! Just pinch your nose!"
|
158461
|
I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
|
158431
|
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.
|
158300
|
I smoked my cigarro under his watchful eye. We were never able to make too much conversation even when I was teaching him at Educenter. Now that David had opened his own school, Evert had come to learn with him because it was much more affordable, but he
|
158352
|
“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?”
|
158321
|
Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.
|
1583109
|
...when they decided to teach her a lesson, it was with particular vigor and vitriol...
|
158331
|
"She saw they were absorbed in making faces at each other with a smartphone app that enlarged a mouth."
|
158321
|
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.
|
158340
|
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
|
158300
|
A customary phone call from home. What are you doing she says? Playing football I retort – what else. The usual sigh and a faint giggle followed. Much unlike how it backfired back in the late 20’s and we were going to make it the reason to break up! The p
|
158300
|
The bullet split her head in half before she could finish her sentence. Her blood sprayed out onto my face and covered my lips. The taste of life as it suddenly ended.
|
158310
|
|
158366
|
You might want to think twice before inviting Henry David Thoreau to your next dinner party...
|
158264
|
His face was creased with sadness the first time in the room and he danced his tai chi like a young man half his age, and laughed, like headtrippers do, from the neck up.
|
158221
|
I ran for the car, heart pounding in my chest, feverish. I jerked the door open and dropped into the seat of the Audi S5. The ignition fired and the car purred to life. I dropped it into gear and hit the gas, tires spinning, gravel spraying. The treads caught on the hot …
|
158211
|
Margie sprayed the gift with her most expensive perfume and tucked it into her sweater’s front pocket. This way she could hold it close to her on the subway, so no one would see the pretty wrapping and try to snatch it from her
|
158221
|
Sure my man. Show me the token I’ll show you the slice.
|
158243
|
We all need a place to stay.
|
158210
|
“If Sir would observe, the storm welt, a shoe for the big occasion, a shoe that will guide sir through the dismal passages, a shoe that will roar in the face of adversity and …”
|
15822714
|
Its intelligence won’t be/
diminished when you take/
a bone saw to its cranium
|
158201
|
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.
|
