2478 10 3
|
The first thing one notices about rocks is they are essentially quiet creatures. Adverse to long discourses or extended bouts of conversation, they nevertheless are quite engaged in life.
|
247810
|
- Do you get out much, Professor?
- How so? You mean to lectures?
- No, I mean, you know, say, a walk in the park, or, take in a movie, or, maybe take a chick out to dinner, show her a good time, get a few drink
|
247787
|
On a visit, Jesus sees bracelets with WWJD. What does that mean? he asks. What Would Jesus Do? they respond. I wouldn’t wear that, he says.
|
2477204
|
It's supposed to resemble the sea bed. These fish have never seen the outside of an aquarium and even if they had, they are reef fish, they'd probably get the bends and die if they went to the bottom of the ocean where the chances of them finding a cerami
|
247734
|
My tongue is clicking.
I want to act out.
I want an unprofessional bargain.
|
247732
|
We fucked in the backseat like the verse of a b-side, and that was enough to make him think my boys were half of his body.
|
247633
|
'Tis a cruel season. I have nothing and no means to order anything. Nobody to shop for and nobody to buy things for me. But the catalogues keep coming. And these catalogues don't bring out the best in me. The catalogues switch on what I call my want switc
|
24762717
|
Oh what fun they had riding that bike! What adventures! They went everywhere, in town and out.
|
24761211
|
fun fact: a doll's legs will twitch
while being scalped
but only for just a little bit
|
247562
|
His hands fumble over my curves like he’s petting his golden retriever. He wears in inexperience on his face like I wear my mascara.
|
247511
|
The Sentinels held up their weapons at the main door, preparing for a fight. Lori saw the look on the girl’s eyes, something she felt she should not see in them.
|
247400
|
She saw mana from the pendant floating to her chest and its resonance pulsed with her heart, yet it felt empty. Unaware of what she had done, she reached out to it, thought of a name, and called for it.
|
247274
|
|
24712423
|
That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
|
247085
|
I read the last line and close the book with a smack. “That ends that section,” I tell him. “Coming up is the chapter titled ‘The Ancient History of the Sewers of Paris.'
|
2469118
|
|
246843
|
I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
|
246853
|
leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.
|
246799
|
Frisbee dog. Stealth the cat. Read more. Cut toenails. Less wine. Bind the ties. Avoid mirrors. Divide water.
|
2467149
|
She doesn't even know who wears the Adam's apple in this house.
|
246792
|
spreading gilded pages with a tlickt
|
24663324
|
No one explained triumph
would feel like this.
|
24661813
|
Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”
|
246620
|
Hanging was back and thriving - twice a week at half seven in the evening.
|
2465109
|
"Maybe so, but you have seen those photos in the National Geographic, right? Do you really want to risk it?" she demands and I sigh in defeat.
I wake up at midnight, hot from too many blankets and pull my bra off through the sleeves of my shirt. I th
|
246311
|
Rumiko was atop a tree and no longer saw the town in the distance, but can see the mountains nearby. It was like Mayumi described it, but it look so far away.
|
24631711
|
(Insert poignant line here)
|
246364
|
Human being: a fruit or vegetable with animal aspirations and a mineral destiny.
|
246383
|
My resistance sublimates. There is a long instant of absolute relinquishment, in which I imagine droplets of water plinking into my lungs in a slow, musical fashion, like icicles melting in a perfect cave.
|
246396
|
The Lorelei is my sherris ; Ibibio shall not want. Head count maketh me to lie down in green patchwork: Head count leadeth me beside the still watercress. Head count restoreth my sounding: Head count leadeth me in the pathway of Rig Veda for his Namen…
|
