Stories tagged movies

Celluloid

37783778 views3636 comments2121 favs

Mina stumbled and fell headlong into her apartment, smacking her knees and palms on the hardwood floor.

The Arab Bank

198198 views00 comments11 fav

It had been particularly easy this spring, and it had always been very, very easy.

While on Vacation in Rome

775775 views88 comments11 fav

While on vacation in Rome, Jeanine was accidentally mistaken for Jerry Lewis. She and her mother had rented an apartment on Via Babiuno...

Sashimi

107107 views77 comments55 favs

Takeo Suzuki was teaching KC, big-time film actor and director, the proper way to slice yellowtail. The chef made four quick cuts. KC mimicked him, but his cuts were barbaric and loud.

The Late Show at the Argo

17991799 views1010 comments22 favs

The couple drove away at the end of the late show. They crashed sooner or later, often with fatalities to the woman cuddled up against her illicit lover.

Smoke and Mirrors

10771077 views88 comments22 favs

She liked his company, she was fond of him—the way an old English gentleman might be fond of his terrier—I've very fond of her, you know, he says, rubbing her bristly back.

My Favorite Emotion

4343 views44 comments00 favs

Mom. Dad. I’ll have you know that Jesus, right this second, is in the bathroom, and the bathroom Jesus told me it was okay with him if I pushed Alicia off the roof with a pillow-case parachute.

How to Be a Conqueror

21172117 views2222 comments1616 favs

The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.

Quickly The World Blurs

619619 views33 comments22 favs

On the drive home they are silent, like diffident strangers sharing a bus bench, though sometimes she rests her hand lightly on his leg, and when she does that his arm brushes against hers as he switches gears.

My Date With Jennifer Connelly

29282928 views22 comments00 favs

Hell found me. I was scouring my shelf for books to read last night and nothing seemed to interest me. There were books on anthropology, politics, economics, science, and sociology -- the works. There were also my Hornby's, Gaiman's, Tolkien's,…

Bogart Generations

11141114 views44 comments22 favs

Great Uncle did stunts in silents and shot a man in a cowboy one-reeler, then vanished to the hills like Roy Earle in High Sierra.

Watching Them

312312 views3434 comments1313 favs

I was going to tell my husband, then I decided it would be my secret.

The Juniper Days – Part II, The Diary

7575 views00 comments00 favs

12th August: I have yet to tire of Madrid. Some come and go but there is always a group of the best people to dance and drink and flirt with. (I can frequently accomplish all three simultaneously.)

Zhou Yu’s Train

14641464 views1010 comments55 favs

Are we like a poem, a short hand of words curtained together, evoking a mood, but in the end, impenetrable? We follow the clues to our lover's heart and what we find isn't him at all but ourselves. We fill every part of his life, every part of his past and even become…

Shrödinger’s Inception

399399 views22 comments22 favs

I'm on Schrödinger's plane, over the Pacific. I'm locked in a box in an unobserved state with a dangerous element and when I arrive — in L.A. - I will find out if I am alive or dead. Looking at the low-down clouds, I wonder why it is that Schrödinger's work is one of…