1158 2 2
|
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.”
|
115751
|
no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one
|
115780
|
Despite kryptonite not actually existing it became possible to buy, for 300 dollars, pieces of kryptonite on eBay. Personal protection, the sales pitch said. The pieces of kryptonite looked suspiciously like green plastic.
|
115742
|
After it is over, I go out into the world, to the café. The flower sellers are setting up their booth outside the glass doors. Classical guitar over the speakers. A soft rain falling. Heads bowed, reading the news. Coffee, croissants, cappuccino. This g
|
115741
|
There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
|
115710
|
They pumped him full of electricity and waited.
|
115720
|
It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!
|
115742
|
And in the dark caves a new secret, hidden from flyby probes and the imagination of men. In these new caves, names for the loved ones, Bradbury, Clarke, Rover
|
115721
|
Between the commercials, the local news is rampant with fusillade of bullets going raving mad, driven by some Machiavellian brainfuck, or bombshells smiling down with angels in black; emoticons of solid metal and pride. But you would put your faith in…
|
115764
|
He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.
|
115711
|
He is sleek with hearts and I see a different name etched onto each one.
|
115610
|
When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.
|
11561410
|
looked briefly – glanced
shouted loudly – yelled
fell down – fell
|
1156159
|
Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.
|
115663
|
|
115664
|
We believe in our love storyin spite of the ferocious efforts ofserial bankerseverywhere to discourage us from looking our damned nearprettiest if we really feel like it. I meangranted they do do their ugly troll dogimpressions of…
|
115622
|
Pictures of war correspondents from The Tribune, and colonial photographs in a fruit crate
|
115644
|
I heard the patron yelling,
“Hey, man! That’s my cappuccino!”
when the young female snatched it and got away.
But the police cornered her a few blocks away,
licking the last bits of foam off her wiley whiskers.
That’s how they knew they had
|
11561110
|
|
115611
|
FUN MOVIE TRAILER: 41 members of my family participated in a movie I co-wrote and shot with my wife. Have a look!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7k2r81iXEHere's the 64 minute film-noir-style…
|
115641
|
Tomorrow we will eat it in anger.
|
115531
|
This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
|
115598
|
After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.
|
115541
|
I heard you singing in the bedrooms with me. The down I was fond of, down of your cheek, your thighs light blonde in the light. Out of the dark, sweet bay, were you like a shining rock, shining white, undulating, a thing of heat. I remember you, yes!
|
115552
|
“Don’t you think you should tie a tourniquet or something?” she asked as I bled profusely from the points where Jesus was wounded during his crucifixion.
|
115596
|
so here we all are/
deep in debt
|
115544
|
The Managers are always to be found in twos or threes, lumbering greyly.——If you pass the Managers in a corridor it's a good idea to say hello. They will probably return your greeting, as best they can.——The Managers conduct meetings. They sit at the…
|
115500
|
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…
|
115523
|
His smartphone rang. A picture came up of him kissing the blonde.
|
115522
|
I caught a fragment of a charged argument as I passed them. The young man said, “Well, I am talking about love.” And the young woman with equal volume checkmated with, “Well, I am talking about money.” Though their lives were none of my business, this exc
|
