1492 2 2
|
Most of Carl’s neighbors considered him a lone taciturn man at best and an eccentric loony at worst. His neighbors knew him as the guy who left his house every morning at eight dressed in a suit and tie.
|
149264
|
His father whistles The Torreador's Song in the kitchen; Mirko smells bacon.
|
149264
|
The rocks were pillows around her shorn head, the crimson stream running from her ears the only sign she had not chosen to lay down on them. Behind us, the rockface stood stoic; below us, the water lapped our feet.She held my hand in hers, giving me succor as I…
|
149111
|
For example, I never noticed that the moon had eyelashes, not until tonight. You said you couldn’t really see that, not at all. You preferred the fact that the word “lunatic” sounded like an attic on the moon...
|
149120
|
I loved baseball and still do, but if you saw me at eleven years old you would not mistake me for that kid over there, the one with even an ounce of talent. Mine you’d measure in atoms.
|
149121
|
Even at five years old, I could tell that Eloise was haunted by ghosts that shook her core, leaving her dangling and seeking stability in slowly repeating her compulsive routines.
|
149165
|
A human being is here. He doesn't disappear
|
1491118
|
Will it take the rise/
of cyber guerillas to finish it/
in the way it should be finished
|
149167
|
The dead girl was his niece’s daughter. Only thirteen years old.
|
149131
|
She seizes my hand. I resist just enough to sense her strength.
|
149154
|
I can trust you with my secrets, can’t I?
|
149122
|
"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"
|
149156
|
In my life when I am pursued /
by some wildly delicate thing
|
149132
|
Bubbling from the hairline cracks in the glossy pavement of the new Einkaufszentrum in the town of Dachau oozes a mysterious thick red substance. Not blood, the mayor insists despite chemical analyses. And keep it quiet. Just…
|
14911511
|
My father taught me how to solder and that's when I first started to write. Now, when you hold the soldering iron in your hand and depress the trigger, the tip of the gun heats up. Novices uncoil the solder and place it on the hot tip, but that just results in it…
|
149110
|
One day over a hardscrabble dinner of gristly beef and lumpy mashed potatoes, his uncle looked up at him and said, “Kee-rist, boy, school’s gonna start any day now. And winter ain’t far behind. I can’t keep you here. We gotta figure out something for you.
|
149166
|
|
1491106
|
Rainy eyes fall fast somewhere
close to me
Riding the wind like lust
|
149175
|
Everything conspires to kill you:
|
149021
|
these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math
and boolean logic, not so much
|
149021
|
Up ahead I saw clusters of people standing silently under the trees. They seemed to be just waiting there. More than 100 people lined up in the cold and dark, not moving.
|
149033
|
Fragment’s of ignorance strewn by a haphazard hand
|
149021
|
son a superfly/alligator shoe clad/networking man/working a beeper and flip phone/twisting blueberry spliffs/on ma's porch
|
149000
|
I got kicked out of a soup and salad place last week for trying to buy a large soda so I could sit and eat my sack lunch there while I read “Love’s Desperate Creatures” by Dorothy Danville. Have you read it? Its great. I’ll give it to you when I’m done
|
149020
|
her skin was delicate, fragile, that old woman skin that appears to be translucent.the rip caused by the knife opened it up like tissue paper. blood welled for a moment, then poured out with real purpose.this was the delight he found in old ladies.. the scent of their…
|
149044
|
I planned to wear this shirt, /
blue, black, and white stripes, /
collar and pocket,
|
149033
|
It is dead, for a time.
Sometimes we are all dead for a time.
Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.
|
149044
|
The Utah State Attorney General's office recently stated in a court filing that there is no constitutional right to marry a laptop.(Time, 6/19/17)Smartphones are spreading head lice.(New York, 7/10/17)People are less helpful when it's hot.(Time, 7/24/17)Online virtual…
|
149000
|
From Faud POV 2 or 3...... Faud ......... The stillness and the silence inside the chamber had grown imperceptibly hypnotic, and the first indication that anything was imminent was a click on the outside of the double door that stood in for a starter's pistol…
|
1490105
|
Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.
|
