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We got off the bus at the entrance to the other team’s stadium. I remembered I didn’t want to play football anymore and wondered why I was there.
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“My fellow Americans,” says his boss, leader of the free world. “The orbit of the moon has been disturbed. No longer revolving around the earth, the moon now hurtles toward the earth. Impact is expected within days.
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A spasm rippled across your face as the dropping sun emphasized your bloodshot eyes. “More fool me,” you said, propping me back in the now upright pram and pushing it along towards the church gate.
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They were an interesting young couple. Tom was a big man with rugged features, though not handsome. His face was deeply pock-marked with the scars that are sometimes left over from a terrible bout with adolescent acne. His wife — though I was never certai
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"What you need is a miracle, yes?"
I say, what I need is a few Demerol and a handful of Valium.
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Here’s the long and the short of it:
Her weltschmerz
needs a wash job
or oil change
or some kind of lubricant
His collar has gotten too tight
and has a leash
attached to it
He needs to get free
She needs a lube job
They were mad
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He quotes philosophers’ biographies from the back of garage sale books.
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Her body begins to lengthen and twist, her limbs becoming wings. Together, the avians depart, the new anatidae’s berry branch and blue scarf forgotten among the rushes.
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---What's that word I like?
---You like a lot of words.
---The funny one. That's long.
---Bamboozled.
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I’ve quit my job and squirreled away a bit of cash to get me started. I’ll live with Eoghan Brady and some other Irish guys in a house in Harrow and Wealdstone.
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This may be too religious for you, as at first it was so with me. But I assure you, on my scholarly integrity, I have found the Genesis Serpent’s skin! Yes, that Genesis Serpent--though just a leftover piece of him,
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In this glass your eye looms like the Cyclops, huge and bleary, the red veins like those that stick out of the beheaded turkey at Christmas before Mam cleans it up for stuffing.
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"ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
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So I have a fun problem. I live on Broadway/Manila and a vagrant of some sort continues to defecate during the night on my yard. This has been going on for a year. He was using my water to wash himself I guess because I came home from the gym a couple of
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My father’s ashes are still in the Jacob’s Kimberly Cream tin, weighed down by a pile of old manuscript pages from a novel that’ll never see daylight.
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