1364 6 6
|
And pity us, this generation of sighing:
|
1364 6 4
|
I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.
|
1364 3 2
|
|
1364 8 4
|
His legs were pedaling hard and his heart was beating fast, He's got his scars; He can't outrun his past, Down the hill he goes, wind whipped his hair, a new style with each draft. He broke his brakes long ago; He cut the cable and ripped off the pads. He cried…
|
1364 0 0
|
Miller exclaimed "Somebody give me a cheeseburger!"--a line from one of his hits--and members of the Academy broke out in knowing if subdued laughter.
|
1364 10 4
|
Contest rules are simple. Two teams of five hunters each are established by drawing from pools of interested volunteers and selected prison inmates confined for capital crimes and illegal immigration.
|
1364 8 7
|
Orchids strewn over the floor...
|
1364 1 0
|
it is heavier than it looks with edges smoothed by the passage of time
|
1364 2 2
|
In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.
|
1364 2 2
|
They can’t help
Seeing a child even there
In the crude brushstrokes.
They say it is me.
|
1364 1 0
|
Steven 33 started small, made it big then opted out. All the great pillars of the world’s economic construction do that. Steven 33 saw an opening, then sold the idea just before yesterday dawned. His first fortune grew from fear.
|
1364 2 1
|
Macro-Microbe parked his car and proceeded on foot, which was a misnomer because he had no feet. Typical for Manhattan, no one gave him a second glance except for a homeless woman who tried to sell him hand-sanitizer. Macro-Microbe locomoted himself insid
|
1363 12 6
|
Crouching like little children in a game of hide & seek, we entered the old house, slowly
|
1363 4 3
|
YOU cross the park as the evening gathers, the playground is deserted, streetlights spark up orange beyond the trees that veil the main road. You feel your journey pushing at your back, the last scraps of the energy of a train hammering north. At the far edge of…
|
1363 4 1
|
But, The Driver talked about speed. Something about pulling her off easy or we’ll blow our tires. “No telling what’s off that shoulder,” he’d say.
|
1363 0 0
|
It's a funny thing, watching a Snowman shiver
|
1363 1 1
|
She is walking to the café to meet her friend. Her friend is there already because she walked from where was getting her haircut. Her friend sent her a text message that said, “OMW” for…
|
1363 5 4
|
I don’t even want to think about Aethra shtupping Posiden and Aegeus
|
1363 0 0
|
She found Matthew toward the back, cradling an urn with a tasteful black and gold pattern. When he saw her approaching, he held it up for inspection. “You think I’d look good in this?” he asked.
|
1363 2 1
|
It was night. It was Massachusetts. It was an interview in a snowstorm
that Detective Vivian Diaz wished would go away.
|
1363 2 0
|
Charley calls to say he hasn't heard from me. The blinds are gone, so I take a lipstick off the living room table and draw a circle around his head. I make a half-circle for his gut, a squiggle for the telephone cord. He can come over, he says, just to …
|
1363 4 3
|
An excited state
with undiscovered borders, the almost space -
|
1363 3 2
|
She is not centered, but she finds her way.
|
1363 0 0
|
We had imagined making babies with ease, as if they were simply fruit- ripening on the trees around us- and all we had to do is stretch out our limbs and pluck. We never imagined that skill is involved, that heartbreak is required, and that the one simpl
|
1362 13 6
|
I said he was cold. I said I like cold.
|
1362 3 2
|
I used to compare her to a sunburnthe first of the summerit is always the worst oneexposed skinalmost hot to the touchturning warm and pinkthen raw and redit is a transition that is effortlessbut still you can feel it happeninga lot like loveyou can feel it all around…
|
1362 1 0
|
At six a.m. he was awakened by the alarm on the watch, and found he could not remove it from his wrist, though he was able to turn it off. Of course, she was gone, but had left a little patchouli-scented note on a pillow.
|
1362 0 0
|
A door slams. The vibrations rattle through the floor, up his legs and into his chest. He can hear the yells, and the tears that mar her voice. Rat-ta-tatRat-ta-tat A door slams. Eyes closed while images of a life he will never live flicker on…
|
1362 12 6
|
The brown grackle chirps/
as she chomps a plump cricket-/
melodious meal.
|
1362 7 4
|
NO ONE CAN BE A BASTARD FOREVER
|