As any woman who has recently been run down by the dating scene could tell us, the relationship between men and dogs is as undeniable as the relationship between dating and chasing cars. You never expect to catch one, but you bark anyway, and when you do catch one you don't know how that happened or what to do with it. Unlik... More..
Paul's concentration was blown and there was no recovering it. The left hand page of his Econ 101 book flapped against his knuckles while the right hand, fluorescent marker tucked in the web between his first two fingers, wrapped around the top of the book. The sky was a bright cerulean hue with an approaching flat, uniform ... More..
Rachael, be awake. Be a character that I made in tennis shoes stained with red brown dirt and wear your heart at your feet until I tell you to scoop it up neat in a plastic bucket complete with a fat sponge for washing the T-bird. Come awake and be. Rachael. Speak. For me? My back aches and these shoes pinch. This shirt chok... More..
Juicy and sticky little red and orange bits hurt when they wedged up under the wire of his braces until he bitched about it, open mouthed with as much reeking breath as he could propel in his friend's direction. "Well don't eat 'em!" Bruce would say with his back half turned to Gil, short for Gilbert. Bruce brought the candy... More..
If there was one thing Denise knew it was that mustard was not that expensive, and that everybody could afford it, even Grey Poupon. Such knowledge produced a clamping pressure in her head when she considered it from behind the perspective of what her brother's ex wife had just told her. First, there was her sister, who in p... More..
While the need to feed ourselves and the desire to have pleasure attached to the act of consumption prevents the complete elimation of the art of cooking, American lifestyles make it less and less feasible to choose to create the food our families and ourselves eat at home. It's a busy time in American culture, now also comp... More..
She was young, timid and lonely, with hair that fell into her face and a slouching, although not shuffling gait that betrayed the habitually grim expression on her face even when it wasn't visible. It gave her smiles a rarefied and precious quality that would channel through groups of people when she displayed it, embarrassi... More..
Taken: more commitment than a kiss a swallow, gullet going slide forget process involuntary swig of carbohydrate mud slide. Dissipated, finished, done. A part of you made without question flesh without flesh within a peel of apple skin a human rind built and walking on this given and grown, the last and once living edible. More..
If you can think of 16 things you need to do today, not to say, right now, I'll bet that the one task that is consistently hoisted to the top of the priority hierarchy is watching TV. Is it worth it? Answering that question in all its facets would take more effort than pushing the up and down arrows on a hand held device you... More..
The cop thought very poorly of me. I could tell because I did not know the zipcode of the area where I lived, a small town beside another small town that I had reached by walking over a bridge one summer afternoon, passing several dogs in the process. One Golden Retriever leapt to the limit of his rope several times as he en... More..
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