1621 3 2
|
We’re not like a lot of your fly-by-night disease-based charities. Every pence we raise goes directly to St. Bartholomew’s, where 90% of it ends up in the pockets of doctors so they can buy expensive horses.
|
142522
|
We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.
|
133232
|
Two movies with a cartoon in between. That's how it worked when I was a kid. For a buck, or less, I suppose, no, scratch that, it musta been less than a buck. Heck, it couldn't ‘a cost that much because I had to scrounge pop bottles to even get to the movies. Three…
|
153850
|
You are Day I am Night Let us Meet In the Afternoon And…
|
154341
|
No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.
|
77332
|
"So what about this week's selection?" I ask cheerfully. "What did everybody think?"
"I liked it!" says Liz. She always does--her tastes aren't very discriminating.
|
148422
|
He will feast and die beneath the glaring gaze of the western sky, waiting patiently for what will come next
|
151912
|
|
308641
|
Black Panther Founder Bobby Seale has come to Yellow Springs, Ohio—a leafy village east of Dayton-- to carry his message of "the continuing human liberation struggle" to the 2002 graduating class of Antioch College.
|
165670
|
He came running out of his narrow little shop, Berthillon
and chased me down the Ilse St. Louis street, saying,
“Monsieur, Monsieur, nous avon pamplemousse!
It’s ici, Monsieur. Your pamplemousse.
They just come in this matin, morning
and I’
|
102122
|
Hand shaking as she drinks from her cup,
talking non-stop on her cell phone.
Blue eyes, dirty blonde pigtails tied up with blue ribbons,
pink polka dot shoulder bag,
old pock-marks along her cheeks.
Having long discussions over the phone
wit
|
180321
|
Back in the sixties, I chanced upon a list of books. That’s right. Sifting a black garbage bin, I found the long lost canon. Seizing the moment, I snatched the list, and cradled it in my palms. I felt proud and patriotic for saving such a noble list f
|
163160
|
You're so insecure; you probably think this story is about you.Well, you would be right.
|
199021
|
What Mohammed didn’t tell me was the house was owned by drug dealers and inhabited by wealthy playboys who urged me over and over again to accompany them to the bathhouse.
|
89111
|
Like the absence of a screw
|
107432
|
The mystery is in the barmaid's impersonal stare.
It's all there. Recognizable the bottles of Bass Ale
And Crème de Menthe. Glazed oranges piled in a bowl.
Two roses in a small clear glass of water.
A wide gold bracelet on her arm, halfway
|
296631
|
TEXT TO VICKY
This sucks! Sorry for the teen-speak Vicky, but it does. You saw me in the hospital. It's just as bad at home. They still don't know what to do for my smashed voice box. I probably won't ever speak again. (Maybe with a mechanical thing lik
|
145822
|
|
239031
|
Sure, it was a hot day, but the driver was in the middle of a driving lesson!
|
105141
|
|
205122
|
Wee-wee-sweet-pea me? I live, I weep, a third of me passed in sleep, start a scene or two, play and dance the fool, …
|
158221
|
Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son
|
107032
|
In the early days of the atmosphere there was less dirt, and the rain had trouble falling. There were no stoplights on earth, only rivers of white light. Early man and birds collided in the upper air, because everything was clear and light like a feather.
|
153822
|
|
372500
|
Alysia and Megumi were now twelve years old and for the first time, they were celebrating their birthday together. It was also special for them because it was a leap year and they did not have to celebrate on March First.
|
176721
|
Lake Berryessa, CALIFORNIA It was dusk on the 27th of September when the Stocky Man finished his work and trudged casually back across the…
|
135631
|
After ten days in Jeddah, I start to miss the rain back home in Tennessee....
|
144721
|
When she would leave my pillows still smelled like her. I would just inhale her for hours afterwards, sex and honeysuckles.
|
231630
|
I’m sick of you headless muffuckas
searching for a facelift.
|
126622
|
On the days I wasn’t there, my insides felt like paper-mâché.
|
