1310 2 2
|
They read poetry to each other. They met at the local drugstore, after he spotted Tropic of Cancer jutting from her bag. He asked her if she’s finished it. “Nothing like Fifty Shades of Grey,” he said. They laughed. He said: “Come to our book club later.
|
1310109
|
He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.
|
131052
|
The night sky was washed gray by city lights.
|
131000
|
Don't slow down, he said, time grows shorter every minute.
So you pretended to stay young or cheated on your marriage or forgot to watch your children growing up, and still never found someone who could understand you.
|
131044
|
the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls
|
131010
|
We called him Mickey Habanero, because he could fill his mouth with the hottest food imaginable, the kind packed with the sort of heat that would melt the gums from the teeth of a novice, all without taking a drink of milk or anything else that would otherwise soothe the…
|
131076
|
For decades the land the village sat on had switched its allegiance between two countries.
|
131056
|
I said: “Doesn’t he understand? People like me, geniuses—great, mad geniuses—are prone to failures because we do not accept the common notions of society? Doesn’t he understand? I’m not like the others.”
|
131084
|
The title of the overdue book returned to a public library in San Francisco 100 years after it had been checked out? Forty Minutes Late.(Readers Digest, 04/17)In 1999, Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's former assistant, went to a Halloween party dressed in a Marge Simpson…
|
131010
|
Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.
|
131094
|
soft voices singing somewhere in the black back of
rising tensions crashing with the waves...
|
131000
|
I beat that dog with an open hand, clenching him between my thighs.
|
131056
|
beckoning with citrus streaks blue cobbled streets/and stuccos lit with gold lamps guide strollers here/to Place du Forum in Arles and this café . . .
|
131051
|
It’s as she reaches into the fridge for the carton of half-and-half with the grainy waxy photo of the little girl—Last Seen 10/2/06—that the memory surfaces:
“Hey. That’s mine.”
|
131084
|
Is this sought sea dream of the Arctic fox? The green below the circles of the white, above her eyes? On Formica tables where the woman smocks beneath glass borders of their vacant smiles, they pass by windows formulating styles,…
|
130920
|
"I see flashing bright bacteria floating in the air," he replied, not bothering to think about the words. "I see puffs of smoke issuing from inappropriate objects. Fingertips. Baby carrots. Furniture... Oh, Christ," he seethed, arching again. "Get me some
|
130965
|
Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."
|
130900
|
It's hard not to sound dramatic when you begin a letter "On Earth..."
|
130940
|
Koo ate the sad, bitter pills just so she wouldn’t have to try and make small talk about La Donna’s deformed, retarded kid.
|
13091511
|
|
130921
|
Did Isaac see, his mirror in the fronds Of apple-orbs that let their ripeness stay No more than supplication of the wands The sweet tornados in one drizzle's wings betray? The tree that greets them is not ruled by iron bands Whose light's lines were…
|
130953
|
Marie and Mary lay side by side, partitioned by flimsy blue vinyl on cheap plastic rollers.
|
130910
|
Once upon a slime there was an Edenlike place that existed in outerspace all by itself. It was lonely, this little rock in space
|
130922
|
The research facility is located at the bottom of a steep and jagged valley, far away from Heaven, and the anguished eye of The Almighty.
|
130944
|
Once there was a real honest to God holy spiritout there that was a gift of loving kindness meant for everyone to share; unfortunately, it was given to all the wrong people, or the wrong people simply stole it. Either way the wrong people are…
|
130900
|
Where was my real soul mate, I wanted to know, and why were there no twitchy children on my lap, and how had I been so dumb to believe that beauty's currency would never run out? So, Paris....
|
13091817
|
The courts had scheduled the date long ago but the time, an hour always left to the warden, had yet to be decided.
|
1309107
|
Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
|
130920
|
Lu loved his mother, but her anxieties nagged at him like poison ivy. You can't avoid scratching it, but the more you do, the worse it gets.
|
130931
|
It was the first warm day of a late-arriving spring. Ben was sitting in his divorce lawyer’s office on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
|
