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Baby Teak can access Wikipedia by rubbing two xylophone mallets together.
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My uncle lived part-time in prison, in a cell with a blanket, pillow, and towel. The remainder of his days he lived in a small house on Prospect Street.
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Never mind that they cost millions per year just to amuse the monkey bone in us all or that they spew pollution or that their only real purpose is murder. They are justified by skill and thrill.
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The world is always changing, even if it's in several eras at once.
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When you see him, you'll know.That's what the prophecy was. Well, part of it, at least. The prophecy that Tabitha was to be the next Earth mother. That when she saw her partner, she would know. Keith, and his mission partner, and the elders, they had made it so. Made it…
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In retrospect, we should have been a cult.
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I rifled through the bedside table until I found dirty magazines
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The Zone is a garden of skyscrapers. Every building is a model.
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Bill Watterson isn't just the creator of the world's best comic strip. According to the book “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes,” a biography of the elusive and reclusive cartoonist, Watterson is also a world-class introvert. Watterson refuses to make…
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Jean-Pierre and Azure watched the security guards running around the building yelling, and Jane grabbed Azure’s arm while holding the radio.
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THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…
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However could anyone get Joyce scholarship mixed up with physical anthropology?
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My face in your face The light in your eyes Dancing and twirling Growing, alive A hall of mirrors reflecting me Shards of glass Silver and black Injure and cut Years of bad luck A hall of mirrors protecting me Wrinkles and bags Time's been unkind Disease and…
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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I am a human resource, batteries not included
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Nicole knows that Deirdre is winding up for the weekly pitch, practicing the line in her mind.
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men sitting on stoops
women earning the rent
by working as servants
in the rich folks yard
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a human hand/
looks sadly/
naked now
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They look like amateur beavers, all twenty-seven of them on their knees, gnawing through frosting bark. My wife is taking notes on a huge purple flower, listening to the kids as they shout out what tree corresponds to what flavor.
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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The summer I turned fourteen I wanted a job so I could start saving for a car. Actually, I had a job, but it wasn't much. Seventy-five cents…
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On shingle of seashells &
Bullet shells,
Ghosts drift along the shore
Of the Black Sea.
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His grandmother's recipe called for the pasta dough to be beaten with a bone--and not just any bone either. It had to be a human femur. This was his first hurdle. Where would he get such a thing at this hour in this part of town? Or, for that matter, at any…
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she thinks she looks good in her short red dress, black makeup around her eyes, last night's lipstick a slap of crimson on her cheek.
"like this," she says, holding the hammer above her head.
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The question isn't whether we will survive-/
like rats, we are supremely adaptive-//
but whether we should survive.
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I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
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This story* is brought to you by
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sometimes i have to be in the other room
just so i can breathe easy away from you.
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I smell it, it smells/Of giggles and leg shaking
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