1498 3 1
|
Over fifty plastic flamingos stood silently at attention... as if eating sea urchins out of our lawn.
|
14981711
|
When he woke he carried the body of a cat instead of a man. Next to him his cat dreamed it had a human body.
|
149885
|
On his last day of high school Jackie York woke up to the smell of burning books. He didn't know it was his last day of high school. He did know the smoke coming through his rusty window screen was book smoke.
|
14972719
|
On the bus I sat like an ounce.
|
1497107
|
god bless my shapeless head. we are good at becoming older. i feel incredibly negative all the time.
|
14972514
|
And you know that notion just goes to show...
|
149783
|
Morning claims me from sleep before I can say noYou wake up instantly from your alarm clock's ringYou are bright, enthusiastic, ready to cooperateIt will be a good dayYou shower, dress and I prepare your breakfastEggs, soft, toast two ways, one with salmon cream cheese,One…
|
14971011
|
the brand we like best and buy whether it's on sale or not. Surely there is another blue cheese dressing that is sold, possibly in San Francisco and made in a Berkeley basement by hippies who scrape together all of their change twice a year and buy cheese from an ancient…
|
149651
|
unbury yourself from the silt and give me some seal love.
|
1496109
|
We watch the news together every day.
10 minutes total; flashes of tragedy broken up with fluffy current events.
|
149664
|
“I better go. My mom needs me at home,” she says. Soft. Smooth. Firm. Sweet. Maybe I’m pushing too hard. I kiss her on the cheek and she stiffens in response. My heart bleats.
|
14962117
|
There is a tall and leafy tree in our backyard. Also a bride, a groom, and a chicken.
|
14961410
|
Just a little shop girl in for the summer. Working on a typewriter. Barely knowing where the keys were. That was her. She was terrible at it. He was in a suit. He looked short, and thin, but something about him was captivating. He was in his own way hands
|
1496128
|
In the office supply store on Union, Jeremy, the stock boy, shelves tubs of rubber bands. Tubs with an easy-access pop-top and a see-through container. If Hendy saw these tubs, she would think these particular rubber bands resembled anorexic gummy-worms,
|
149683
|
Julie studied her brush, plucking a strand of hair from it. She looked up and smiled. "My mother thought you were a peeper."
|
149611
|
{Chapter iv of Undermind} "What do you think of the light in our city at night?" It spreads out in every direction, following the hills and valleys of the city, visible into the far distance from the Penthouse party room on the 44th floor. "Gorgeous!…
|
1496135
|
Dad woke us up and said it was time to go.
|
149600
|
Protag noted that Gertrud’s brow was knotted with stress and rage, as if she’d been drinking too much coffee and reading the latest translation of Simone de Beauvoir.
|
149685
|
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.'
|
149696
|
MIDNIGHT all day. Bleak December. A chiaroscuro, snowing blackbirds.
(Pas de cinq mille, in B minor.)
|
14951910
|
The snows have not come but left behind are the sounds of summer in my old neighborhood.
|
149554
|
I am an icon of drunken ruin, sunken cheeks and shaggy face
Breath like molded barley and eyes like old oysters
placid and grey, devoid of illuminating
thought
|
14951010
|
A block after his first crime, he found a bookstore to commit another.
|
14951815
|
I murdered my inner child/
at 7 and neither denied/
nor confessed the act until now.
|
149500
|
There’s an old journalism adage, usually uttered by editors who haven’t had their butts out of a comfy leather newsroom chair in years, which goes: “You know… the news just doesn’t walk in the door.” ... But sometimes, it does.
|
149588
|
It took all four of his kids to convince my father to pull the plug. Mom's car crash had left her a vegetable, but of course he hung on. Once they withdrew life support, she was gone in ten minutes. The first thing our father said was that he was hungry. He felt…
|
149421
|
ZaSu played wingwoman to Gale Storm, who played herself, and quite well I might add–she had herself down pat! But I found ZaSu as second fiddle to be, curiously enough, more alluring than the first chair.
|
14941716
|
"Why so ornery?" she asked.
|
14941711
|
She drew her hands out of the chest cavity and looked at the clock.
‘Time of death,’ she said.
|
1494189
|
She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.
|
