1122 6 1
|
I got fired once because I couldn't make change. I knew this going in. Friends and family all pushed me to take a job behind the counter at a health food store. I kept insisting I couldn't make change. Seriously. My mind goes blank. If someone hands me a five dollar…
|
1122157
|
...he had that same grin, better than a racy French picture.
|
112210
|
d anon., I've Had Trouble "Loosening Up." I've got to keep my pump primed, don't I?
|
112211
|
Miranda laughed. The cream of the retail industry laughed...
|
112241
|
There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
|
112210
|
They pumped him full of electricity and waited.
|
112254
|
and so I'm staying here where I am a little while (longer). Who knows where the time sleeps? I don't think I'll ever catch up with your heart again. That's the same lame novel approach I'm always stepping into to…
|
112242
|
That morning in the driving rain a sequence of automobiles appeared on the streets in the region with headlights in the form of television monitors
|
112200
|
One fine afternoon a few months after her husband's death, Susan awoke in the porcelain tub of her gigantic, empty house with: two champagne bottles, one only half-empty; a Xanax bottle, completely empty; and a loaded gun, which was most startling
|
112200
|
Sam tapped the stick against the small mountain of trash bags, a dull thud predictably followed by a dozen rats scurrying out of the mass. He's started to make a personal game of it — seeing how many he can kill with one whack; if he swings hard enough, and in…
|
112244
|
Hours later, when I was on the phone trying to explain in broken Greek that I didn't have the money to pay damages, I started to retrace my steps from that souvenir shop I reduced to dust.
|
112200
|
Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe
|
112242
|
It's always dark when Cal and I arrive. We park under the bright sodium lamps, closest to the doors. The lights will probably be off by the time we return, unless the sensors miscue in the uncertain light of early morning. When that happens, the lights…
|
112233
|
One night, I wake and Daddy’s in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth.
|
112222
|
He said, “It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say.”
|
112266
|
of a strangely found desire. I wanted to tell you something important, I'm sure, I mean it's pretty obvious, even in this funny breathing space, but everything has been said to death. More isn't always…
|
112220
|
"The rider rode his bike in Arizona just about every day and for all the usual reasons....."
|
112154
|
Eroica sprawled among/
the horns and violins
|
112133
|
Well, hello
hunger: what a sweet surprise.
|
112100
|
Zal’s first day on the job they had 16 customers. They took turns crying, “Bring out your dead!”
|
112164
|
When I look at the picture on my refrigerator, I always think the same thing: "Hitler was a baby once too, look how well he turned out."
|
112120
|
"GROW A PAIR AND DRIVE! DRIVE!!"
|
11211610
|
We're in a sedate forest next to a boisterous beach. The sky is sea green above the trees and forest green above Sinepuxent Bay. Chaste squirrels are keeping a lookout for bad-boy gulls. Kids on circus bikes ride out of the woods into their bathing suits. The…
|
112120
|
Emma held her arm up to John’s eyes. He looked, nodded. “My burns are on the inside,” he told her. “I’ll never show you.”
|
112100
|
This will take forever. I’ll never get to Antibes to meet Isabella, much less make it to Marseille to deliver the picture and then catch the overnight train to Paris. I may have to call Jean-Claude Lyon, the orchestra manager of the Monte Carlo orchestra,
|
11211810
|
But if He makes you happy, stands/
as bulwark against the vast, indifferent/
and deadly universe, then cling to Him
|
112166
|
He can’t enlarge the rock—/
can only find its safest distance
|
112196
|
The world can still be viewed as a honey drop of sparkling rain, but not all washed up tears can be revealed as such. The stories swirling inside are constantly shifting their own gears, searching for the lost highway, and sometimes…
|
112010
|
It was ridiculous. We were only in 3rd grade. How can anyone know at that age, only eight, that Judy F. was the girl he was meant to be with for the rest of their lives?
But that was how Stephen O. behaved. As if they both already knew this, and they
|
112000
|
I sold my ego to pay a parking ticket. And then I wrote 77 words about mental health.
|
