2893 2 2
|
What if Walt Disney had himself turned into a cartoon?
|
289301
|
The sky is orange and red. It’s getting dark out by the time Sophie goes inside to tell Mom. The colors of everything fade together and turn gray, even the grass and my pink bicycle.
|
28933015
|
We met because I hate the actor Bruce Willis.
|
289132
|
"...leafing through the
SEBRING 100 WALLAMATIC
record selector..."
|
2891147
|
Are you there? It’s been so long since I had someone to talk to. Besides Oscar and Wilde, I mean. I feed them crumbs of bread. They’re my pet rats, my only friends. Besides you, of course. How kind of you to remember me! How shall I begin?
|
28913820
|
One dinner party, two couples, three bottles of wine.
A moonbeam shone on the balcony. They felt a slight shifting under their chairs and heard a quiet scraping sound, then the apartment slid out from the building and lifted away.
|
2889189
|
I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
|
28883525
|
Their mother never teaches them to wipe front to back or to brush their teeth before bed.
|
2883910
|
"This story isn’t about you, even if it seems as though it is."
|
28833926
|
I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
|
28774020
|
They lie down in the prairie grass and clutch each other, imagine dying under fat clouds.
|
28763624
|
Dexter is a demon. He called me an over-accessorized hot spot yesterday evening and FYI: he didn’t even kiss me. I slammed the door and left my own apartment. I slept in my car.
|
28742622
|
This test should not be a riddle, it's a simple yes/no. The answer should settle curiosity with an image. One line or two, plus or minus. I say something like this, and the customer service rep asks me to hold.Thing is, I know the answer. I'm moody. My breasts feel like…
|
28721911
|
Nobody has been able to use the washer and dryer for over a month now. Our neighbors have gone laundry crazy. They've become suds-a-holics. They wash everything. If it isn't nailed down, they wash it. Outboard engines, peculiar feelings, dominatrix boots, metaphors,…
|
287210
|
Was it hope or despair that drove her to walk out the door of the place she had called home for the past twenty years? Did she feel sorrow or relief to leave behind a husband and five children?
|
28709833
|
We had them in our bunk beds in the trailer, before Becky fell and broke her neck.
|
286811
|
"Her actions in the city seemed invariably designed to destroy that person, which she’d worked so hard all her life to become."
|
2866149
|
‘Do you know that tables aren’t actually solid’ he said suddenly. ‘I mean there’s loads of space in the molecules that make up wood or whatever. The only reason we can’t push through them is because of the force.’
Nearby the Android called up his light
|
286232
|
Cary Grant wore women's panties. Not boxers, or even briefs. Panties. He said he wore them because they were more comfortable, according to “An Affair To Remember,“ a memoir written by one of his lovers. It gives you a whole new perspective on…
|
28574027
|
Father makes sure the rum is safe, and still down, on his ass, he unscrews the top and takes a slug, and then a second one.
|
28553730
|
Lupe says stealing is bad whether it's from a Baptist or a Catholic.
|
2853276
|
There are two kinds of stupid in the world of smoking. The first kind includes anyone who smokes – knowing well that it is likely to cause terrible pain at a later point in their lives. The second kind includes the people who tell the first kind that sm
|
2852137
|
Now Carver Smithton has a paunched belly as stout as the beer that fills it. His upper lip is thick, fat and flat like a caterpillar run over by a semi on Highway 17.
|
285099
|
I heard the worm
was interested
in the fat robin’s song.
|
2846119
|
"Did you see that?!" exclaimed Judy jerking suddenly from her weathered Adirondack chair.
|
28464027
|
And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.
|
28441311
|
It’s so hard to get to know people these days. Even the social ones wall you out with politeness. Like jackknives with pearl handles in a display case.
|
284141
|
The questions on the form are tough--the U.S. government isn't going to hand out money to just any old rapper hanging out on a corner. We want fresh 'n nasty stuff.
|
2841234
|
There's an orangutan riding an elephant that spots a hound dog.
|
283952
|
“I’ve gotta take a break from this,” Hector said. “I’m not feeling inspired right now. I’ve added about a thousand words. Why don’t you look it over and put your changes in?”
“I can do that,” said Martin. “Impressive! That brings us up to nearly sevent
|
