771 0 0
|
Motivation always needs to come from somewhere. For some all it takes is a sunny day, a smile from a stranger or a simple pat on the back. Others demand a fire lit, a carrot dangled or a whip cracked. Yet here the sun had set, the fire extinguished and th
|
116164
|
just before my break,/ he came on the line,/ old and slow with computers now/ but wanting a discount/ he'd been told he qualified for.
|
19652
|
You drank Frozen Screwdrivers at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday. You ate Taco Boy nachos on a Wednesday around 3 p.m. You made out with your girlfriend after biking along Rainbow Row on a Thursday at 4:45 p.m. It will be fine.
|
13521110
|
Some of them are notorious tweakers. Nobody epitomizes the cowboy-outlaw biker more than the ironworkers, who are wired on Black Beauties they sell on breaks.
|
33600
|
Miranda Cherry laughed, then the cream of the retail industry laughed.
|
123733
|
["Hi, I'm Don Pardo. Welcome to tonight's event. Children may want to cover their eyes ... but adults will have THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES!"]
|
50276
|
One does not open before the other closes,
clicks,
bolts shut.
|
112233
|
he wanders the house/ crying for the hairless tomcat/ (gone for the night/ on an overnight job).
|
114343
|
some days you wake up/ to feel horror/ wrapped beneath your blanket./
|
3833
|
I suggested the hospital was haunted. He thought about it. Maybe. There were a lot of electrical outlets, he said.
|
82320
|
|
82832
|
Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
|
103953
|
It's 2am. The wind is moving at speed, whipping gently the tree branches, and their leaves rustle simultaneously to create a audible sound, like hands flipping through sheets of paper, or that feeling you get on your fingertips when going across a textured surface. I'm…
|
1283148
|
And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.
|
91454
|
We are a city of overworked workers.
|
