1433 2 0
|
"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
|
143356
|
In my day, you could buy a polythene bag of cigarette butts for 5p. And everyone had a proper haircut.In my day, plumbers gave free vasectomies whilst reciting patriotic poems. And all the buses were red.In my day, there was always more than enough sex to go round, with…
|
143300
|
What do I understand?
What have I mastered or come to terms with?
|
1433108
|
One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…
|
143332
|
We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
|
143310
|
Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…
|
143354
|
I find myself in an unfamiliar restaurant, its cuisine an uncomfortable pastiche of Croatian, Burmese, Jamaican and leftovers of long ago Sunday dinners in a small New England town.
|
143362
|
The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
|
143397
|
Jeanne and I were married for eight years. I never knew her.
|
143321
|
Naomi hadn't expected them to come in such a big box. When the UPS man tried to hand it to her, she told him there must be some mistake, but then he pointed to her name¾NAOMI BROWN¾right there on the top. When she finally got off all that tape, she had another…
|
143322
|
The Inauguration Day Windstorm had blown out half the downtown lights to celebrate its twenty-first birthday. Two old friends flecked with gray snow and white hair sat on the boulders that kept the Sound from sweeping away Myrtle Edwards Park. Look at all the…
|
143351
|
A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
|
143321
|
Neither you nor I is old enough, of course,
to remember that America’s most
popular athlete once was a horse.
|
143311
|
Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
|
143300
|
Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
|
143286
|
At some point we all reach the end point/
of something. Something important/
if only to our fragile self esteem.
|
143263
|
Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves
that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.
|
1432118
|
“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…
|
1432139
|
|
143202
|
We’d told her that Kasey waitressed. We talked about it a lot, trying to figure something out. I wanted to be honest with her. Kasey said she was too young to understand. I said that was why honesty wouldn’t hurt anything. Kasey said what about later.
|
143263
|
My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.
|
143210
|
Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.
|
143200
|
The first apartment Troy and Lynn lived in was managed by an alcoholic former army officer, who lived in the complex with his wife and teenage daughter. He was a lush who didn't do much in the way of management. Lynn had barely noticed him before Troy moved in with her.…
|
143296
|
my love for you/ is like the falling snow
|
143221
|
My third Rule of Success—and I may not have these in exactly the right order–is always get a pre-nup!
|
143211
|
The Bird King is trapped behind the mirrors. Sometimes you'll see a hand, a wing, fluttering in a dark space. You may even see his breath, a pulse of mist in a corner of the glass. But don't ever smash his silvered prison. Don't ever let him out and into the world.*****O…
|
143100
|
A baseball bat a large pipe a hammer and axe
|
143166
|
It’s Independence Day. But I’m not feeling independent.
|
143131
|
Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
|
143165
|
No matter what you may discover
Or come to believe during the drinking life
The question still remains:
What if everyone was an accident?
But still, while time may appear
To be nearing its own end
And the sun seems to be getting
|
