2127 6 6
|
I hope you'll have the time to read this before your attention wanders.
|
212710
|
Danica saw her hand with the ring lifted up by Oryn. Both of their eyes locked onto the red gem and Danica understood what Oryn offered.
|
2126199
|
I remember the tan guinea pig, dead of dehydration. Through the wire bars of her cage I viewed her body. She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky.
|
212663
|
For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
|
2126106
|
He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
|
21261714
|
When you move to the music of a woman
|
21252416
|
Veiled by tenuous clouds and dirty air,
|
212574
|
She began guiding Penny’s arms, whispering movements through her body. Memory and experience sang through every fiber of their being. The song had become her life.
|
21251210
|
Some believe the Scots were encouraged to emigrate, hired guns as it were, to Ireland to civilize that population.
If that's the case, we would see it as another evil English trick. In any case, we MacGowans are Scots Irish and Protestant.
|
212596
|
All of those lovelies, pitched on the ground, ignored and ready to rot.
|
21242016
|
Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.
|
212472
|
A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien.
|
212483
|
When you last produced writing on a manual typewriter, was it before or after your first sexual experience, or maybe during? Manual or otherwise. Which do you recall with more enthusiasm...
|
212362
|
Erwin came into the kitchen through the back door and went straight to the sink to clean up. Black mud and dried blood crusted his fingertips and caked the callused whorls of his knuckles. He used the round of strong-smelling soap he kept for…
|
212353
|
A strange and unexpected shift has occurred.
|
212384
|
It calmed the guilt in my heart while kids reveled, laughed, and "made time" with the neighborhood girls on that final night of freedom.
No one would talk to those girls again.
|
212300
|
Momo told me not to mind her, but I did. At night, after he'd tucked me in, I could hear him on the phone in the living room, talking for a long time. Early this morning he woke me up and gave me my backpack. ‘Put some clothes in here', he said. ‘We're going on a trip.'
|
21231716
|
Ed wants to watch the last half of the football game. His wife wants him to mow the lawn.
|
212274
|
|
21222310
|
An Ayurvedic astrologer tells her that she is a child of India. Is a girl born in Indiana a mistake of just two letters on a Scrabble board?
|
212110
|
It's dawn. It's quiet on the pond in the Public Garden. The light is calm, the pollution is mild, and everything is still,except for the occasional cruising taxi. It's the beginning of spring-- tulips out, leaves…
|
2121144
|
"What I need to wear the ring for," I said to myself, "I already got his last name..."
|
212192
|
You never thought you were capable of rape.
|
212153
|
Once upon a time, my friend and I met a nanny pushing a baby carriage and reading an e-book. She wore a plaid dress, blue stockings and a white barrette. A set of wrinkles marred her tanned brow. Multitasking seemed too hard on her.
Inside the carriage
|
2121137
|
|
212111
|
A 1960’s of walking sugar beet fields to remove the rogue bolters by hand and on other days painting the ironwork of cattle sheds with red oxide. Then a 1970’s when the self-inking explosion of tattoos on his hands and then his body began.
|
2121117
|
He was her summer fling, the first cock to crow when the sun rose over her tequila smile.
|
212121
|
A pale face was illuminated by the street light. A voice rasped, “Charlie?”
“Do I know you?”
“It's Bill.”
The side of his little brother's thin face
|
212141
|
I think theorems and hypotheses
but all that comes out is punching and smashing
frustrated hate flows where I'd prefer to know love.
|
212000
|
See a girl like Lily sitting offstage in a wooden chair in a fourth-rate club somewhere, crying, holding on so hard to so little, and as it breaks your heart to watch; forgive me. Understand me. You can’t rescue us. We all deserve more.
|
