1437 3 3
|
The man who put up the clothes line left his kids upstairs at night and came down to my bed.
|
143721
|
|
143787
|
Lord knows we all tried to stop him from doing it. You're crazy we said. This makes you look like a lunatic. They'll hunt you down in even heavier droves now. You've upset their delicate memories. I tried to stop him. That's cow territory my friend…
|
143734
|
My friend, drunk, spoke to me / outside a bar where we hung out; / and his eyes were red from tiredness,
|
143700
|
I am the ocean. My soulless organs live in all of its motionless movement. I am the low. The high. The in between. I am nothing. Back and forth, I simply float along: existing, rising, and then falling into a life that can be considered one big decision left…
|
143701
|
On the ridge in front of them, appeared a creature, neither man had ever seen before, standing taller than their horses, the strange beast walked on two powerful legs...
|
143731
|
He fought off the U-boat packs in the Atlantic — one hand on the tiller, one on the torpedo launch button.
|
143733
|
"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."
|
1437117
|
...come come come come...
|
143777
|
Rocky, Arne’s elderly cat, was perturbed by invisible phantoms that provoked him to leap up on his hind legs, batting his front paws at the air like Don Quixote attacking windmills.
|
143731
|
The heart of those stars is a dab of yellow light. The darkness of the blue night appearing so deep because of the downward strokes of the actual sky interspersed with a violet that is almost black above the truly black silhouettes of the city buildings
|
143721
|
No one knows where the wind comes from, but sure as hell it comes.
The executioner glances round the reception area. Nods to himself. Function versus form. Anodyne, instantly forgettable, like hotel rooms. Perfect.
|
143721
|
The feline apotheosis of Ish -
Shroedinger’s cat.
|
143797
|
I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.
|
143700
|
He stood sopping in front of the mirror, dripping onto the limp puddle of clothing on the floor. He needed a haircut. He needed a shave. He needed to get rid of the two-fucking-inch white hair inside the helix of his right ear. He plucked it—and all the h
|
143611
|
Damn, the light turned
green
on me.
Wasn't ready.
|
143611
|
Charley carried the corpse over to the dinghy and tossed it into the pool of rain water collected inside. The headless snake swerved through the water, oblivious to its fate, powered perhaps by exposed nerves and muscle memory.
|
143697
|
|
143630
|
The door flew open, hitting the wall, and the woman seated in the corner across from her pressed herself against the bench. Loretta saw that down through her petticoats came a trickle of yellow liquid, which pooled on the floor.
|
143656
|
You say you want a resolution
Well, I got one
Let's start with nothing at all
No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs
|
143641
|
We gave our cigarettes names.
|
143644
|
Write me a Will you laughing boy,
|
143600
|
My Mother always said that a storm was death knocking.
|
143633
|
His granddaughter, Ivy, sat on his knee looking at an old photo album she found under the couch during one of her afternoon explorations. She made him wipe off the dust and cobwebs before he took her through all the pictures, per normal protocol. The albu
|
143642
|
Frank left Michiko’s building and walked into Central Park.
|
143662
|
her expressive sigh releasing. Sated. The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption.
|
143600
|
Make paddles of his hands
Use his skull to bail
Rig his thigh bones for a mast
And his skin to make a sail
|
1435144
|
. . . once you start reading and thinking about what he's saying, it's like looking at the reflection of your soul in a mirror . . .
|
143500
|
John Davies paces nervously around an empty parking lot...
|
143541
|
The last thing I heard was a loud retch
The loudest retch I have ever heard
|
