1460 1 0
|
the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
|
146061
|
Everybody will be talking about it
on campuses across the country
“Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet
I bought. I’m not shitting you!”
|
146030
|
I somehow ended up with my father's second wife's wedding ring. Although it could actually be his third wife's wedding ring.
|
146032
|
The were two things and two things only in the town of Comfort, Alabama, that were older than Bella.
|
146062
|
She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....
|
146074
|
|
146063
|
—Have you ever fired a gun?
|
146022
|
Does modeling come easily to me? Am I made for the camera? Not exactly. When I pose for a shot, I feel, well, like a poser, really.
|
146085
|
The problem with drinking gin in the desert is that eventually there is no more gin but the desert is still there.
|
146022
|
Through void decks of apartment blocks,
Over roads on overhead bridges,
Down small streets on concrete pavements.
|
146021
|
She positioned the mouse cursor over the word Bikini and double clicked. The hard drive of the ageing work PC chugged into life as an Excel document dragged itself onto the screen.
|
146031
|
The night I screamed you out of my life for good, I fed your confettied photo to swirling toilet, a ticker tape parade and dead fish burial rolled into one. Later I found the box, a jiffy…
|
146094
|
soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
|
146032
|
The girls of spring, they’ll stop your heart
When they forsake cosmetic art
They practiced back when skies were grey
and clouds obscured the light of day.
|
145953
|
I arrange 15 restatements of how lovely you are forward then backward, horizontally then vertically then along the diagonals.
|
145984
|
She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
|
145943
|
I killed him. I know you probably don't believe me, but it was an accident. I'll bet everyone in this room knows Dennis Gauda.... or should I say knew him? He was District Governor a while back. He also won quite a few speech contests. Yes... he's competition,…
|
145932
|
Friday night in Little Italy is a big night.
|
145900
|
the warnings we fear are the selfsame ones of ourselves
of our vertical need to be first to the heights redoubling
its intractable charm of production— our inheritance.
|
145911
|
sometimes we saw it in the sky. we'd stand on invisible stairs trying to reach it. running like frightened geese. we were going to catch up with it. grab onto its string. pull it down.
|
145997
|
she had a chipped tooth...
|
145921
|
In the blur she met Joseph. Joseph was the priest who lived in the attic of the church. She met him after she grew boobs and thighs that moved like dragonflies soaring above ponds.
|
145901
|
The duty of a student
can be summed up in a sentence
To benefit the race of man
with thoughtful independence
|
145900
|
The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .
|
145934
|
If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.
|
145920
|
"The weird gods climbed down from the moon, past low-hanging clouds and upon leafless treetops. Their unusual boots first touched ground in a parking lot in the city. The snow crunched."
|
145920
|
"Don't stab me with that," says John.
|
145900
|
I beat that dog with an open hand, clenching him between my thighs.
|
145863
|
On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.
|
145852
|
My dog’s on suicide precautions. I had to take away all her eating utensils--even the chopsticks. So now she has to eat directly from the bowl. It doesn’t seem to slow her down.
|
