2602 7 5
|
Montauk was the solution. He had no job, no money. He could stay for the winter at the summer place. It would be a lark. He had come home to Great Neck after losing the last job and they were making broad hints at him to move…
|
260011
|
Ham
If you have never cooked a ham steak, you need not be afraid. The ham is often cut so thin that to over or undercook it is nearly impossible. The exterior reflects the centre better than any other meat; you will know when to stop.
|
260000
|
still the water's insurrection continues, transforming the room into a silent crucible whose pure liquid melts our voices and surges above our heads.
|
2599117
|
"They called him a syllannibal: a person who eats his own words. The only words he ever ate, however, were the ones he had written."
|
25982822
|
I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
|
25983418
|
But I do not dig graves, only cradles...
|
2598106
|
So when they shake a finger, when they yell, she remembers Miss Whalen saying, “It’s not for keeps.”
|
259893
|
Back when Richard was still skinny and mean, we fought at The Island. He broke a pool stick over my head. I bruised more than his ego. We fought over a woman, as always. We were best friends and that’s what we did.
W
|
259731
|
The grenadier moans in his sleep. He’s making love with a dead brown woman. A small, bone thin woman with heavy milk
full breast. A dead child’s milk.
|
25962515
|
We made our escape on grimy streets under skies filled with crows, flapping like litter in the wind.
|
2596125
|
Diedre and Pearl look on from their perch at a nearby table as Eleanor dribbles water from a plastic measuring cup into the bowl of crushed chalk and, using a clean fork, mashes it into a thick paste. A few more dribbles bring it to the correct consis
|
25952215
|
The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
|
2595203
|
“This is the most dangerous road in the world and you want to drive down it. You crazy,” he said.
|
2593115
|
Where was she exactly? There is, of course, no answer to this question. But that didn't stop me from asking it. Constantly. Obsessively.
|
259353
|
They giggled at me when they thought I was asleep, giggled at the size of my balls, which had never been a problem before her. Said it was because of my tiny balls that we only had two children.
|
259352
|
The Six-Second Rule
They come to the new world, but bring the old world with them – the six-second rule.
When their bagel drops face down on the café floor, apparently it’s the old world six-second rule that applies, instead of our own
|
25923714
|
I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
|
2591119
|
Cherry was America's least favorite pie. Her mother made it every year for her father's birthday because "daddy doesn't like cake." America had to wash the bowls, the wooden spoon, the plates and finally the Pyrex dish. Her brother got to "contribute" by climbing the tree…
|
259161
|
“Your children are beautiful,” she said, handing back his wallet after removing several bills. Her mouth was fringed by bitten-off melon lipstick, a calm kind of mad. She told him to call her Sally, “like the song McCartney rips his lungs on.” She…
|
259056
|
He is snoring inside the silo of his throat. The inside there shines golden but that’s not the truth. There is something caught below the gold.
|
258944
|
Tonight the autumn air is clear and still. There is no frost to compare to moonbeams; no wind carries lotus fragrance or rustles maple leaves.
|
258900
|
Even though I made the phone call, it was really Steven who put me on that plane. I wanted to fly out at dawn. "Let's wait till after breakfast," he said. "Change to a later flight." By that time everything was sold out except a few seats on Doomed Flight…
|
2588102
|
The couple drove away at the end of the late show. They crashed sooner or later, often with fatalities to the woman cuddled up against her illicit lover.
|
258851
|
'That November I washed
my hair with rabbit's blood -"
|
258797
|
This little town lost its mill...
|
258796
|
In the evidence of broad daylight, in the secrecy of darkness, in drizzling rain that teased the embers, Annabelle worked hard.
|
258672
|
Once upon a time, a young writer decided to leave his home in Iowa City, and seek wisdom in the East.
|
258583
|
Figures are a strip tease.
|
258588
|
Public voice when he's tense.
|
2585129
|
One rainy day I walked to an out-of-the-way section of town where the buildings were old, and the streets were cobblestone.
|
