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The night my mother dies we'd watched Solaris at the Quad Cinemas Afterward Hauser and I videotape each other, ask probing questions like where do you go when you die, and what is God, and who are you now? …
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The second thing Annie Riser did after receiving her diagnosis was to find a realtor in the Yellow Pages and put her house up for sale.
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I lie here sleepless and wait for the moment when I will touch...
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For one glittering moment
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if we stare into the dark long
enough, we see ourselves at some end or
beginning –
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The streets have terrible breath, it’s said, and everyone hides but the young, who have slick, naked shoulders and fragrant tobacco shreds in the linings of their empty pockets.
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I walk by the hotel where Esenin hanged himself.
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Water and its damages followed Bianca. Every time she looked up. Everywhere she looked up. Up up up up. Water stains, in darkening whorls, curling across the drywall or fiberglass panels, filling them with rot and mold.
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What used to be a scene has broken into fragments and blips of her on a screen I can’t control or manipulate.
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Acts have no meaning, but they do have / trajectory
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So, have your whiskey like a good son.
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We were always thrilled that the moon worked the night shift. In high school, often bored with the two drive-in movies, we'd sometimes go to tent revivals on our dates and get healed or get saved depending upon what that “tent-housed”…
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A cartoon of my personal insight to publishing as I know it.
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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What happens in heaven stays in heaven.
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The last time he saw his psychic, she told him you're gonna die within six months.
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I didn't notice or care that I was stripped down to just high heels, that he had placed a mirror next to the bed. I just wondered who we were looking at.
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At first when she walked in, I thought she looked like a wet dog. Then after a minute, I’m trying to wrap my mind around how perfect she is.
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I popped open the wine
with a Nike shoelace, a trick I learned on the internet
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The field opens up to us like something born.
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... tomatoes swelling and turning pink...
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Somehow, random phrases and sentences from the stories, comments and profile pages were generated as “replies”.
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I have, for example, watched Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 117 times.
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When the snow reached the windowsills I was no longer a virgin.
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We were the same and different. I was wild, wild, and she was calm. A pair of dolls we were. Holding hands in thin white dresses. Running through fields. Spying on boys. Making small things from grass and weed and wildflower. One day (it was a Tuesday) al
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not enough of us / destroy / what we create
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When my husband died, I was in bed with his brother.
Ricky and I had been married six years, three months and two days when his little brother, Ben, and I gave in to the lust that just would not go away in spite of our prayers and tears.
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From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...
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