1539 6 6
|
Okay, so it's not exactly the lost art of sweeping anything away . For the sad fact that no one searing Love endures just for us. Brown, folded Petals, yellows buttered over petals, I do not Wait to see if the floating moon Can at…
|
153994
|
These philosophic notions floated in my head for years and eventually helped inspire my pursuit of basic information in contemporary physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology when I was not reading or writing fiction or verse.
|
153942
|
theme songs for concentration camps!?
|
153942
|
Before I grew used to it
I would wake to the sound
of the Amtrak whistle
echoing down along the tracks
behind our trailer park
and wonder who was hurtling where
through the dark night and across
this wide Illinois prairie
|
153954
|
He did not hear her enter the room...
|
15391311
|
Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
|
153900
|
The day Eugene told me his secret he gave me a bouquet of lilies. Ice clung to the petals like fuzz. Sorry about the frost, he said. That was an accident.
|
153996
|
...when suddenly I was pushed from behind, smack into the deep end.
|
153988
|
I caught her a-feasting with her eyes and smilin' at that Jesus- haired Waffle House cook, Dennis Roy, again and I said, “Merlene, my tiny kitty-kat, they's no reason to carry no torch for him ‘cause he may not be with us very long ‘cause, if you notice, they's no…
|
153920
|
There is just something about a thin, white cotton v-neck t-shirt, he thought, as he ran his hand over bleary eyes and dehydrated lips. He wanted her, as always. But he needed just a little more rest. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail. It…
|
153964
|
“What took you so long?” she asks. She seldom asks me that when we’re done, but today I feel ready to protract the glory, to tease out its rise and fall like the lingering chords of a Debussy pastorale.
|
1539910
|
|
153941
|
You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing.
|
153952
|
Your stepsisters send their love. All three are still on the wagon.
|
153900
|
Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.
|
153997
|
Weight of faithlessness...
Mist
Of bodily
Existence
Grave expectations for the future
|
153900
|
When sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials, read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first thing boys do is ask, “Can we eat this?"
|
153932
|
I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.
|
1539138
|
Treasure that first love. And that first heartbreak. Don’t let it be the last thing.
|
15391110
|
|
153864
|
Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.
|
153844
|
The woman lit a cigarette and sat on the edge of the bed, crossing one leg over the other. She took a long drag, tilted her head back, paused. Her eyes flicked to the NO…
|
153873
|
My, but how that girl loved to defenestrate! I shall ever be grateful for my obstinacy with never living more than a single story above ground level.
|
1538125
|
She sometimes ate her dinner standing up, in front of her living room window.
|
153896
|
|
153844
|
I chose coming away because here at least I feel good — and it makes me feel I am growing very tall and straight inside — and very still — Maybe you will not love me for it — but for me it seems to be the best…
|
153851
|
I lift up my sweatshirt and reach with a full fist into my belly button. This is where the fat comes out.
|
1538198
|
...collapse of the human world. Go, cell phones!
|
153842
|
eleven seconds of infamy / brought to you by Glenfidditch /who the hell filmed this?
|
153833
|
Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
|
