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I had three inches of copy. I needed ten.
promised myself I’d invest in a decent sofa when I returned as a reward for the stunning story I was sure to dig up.
In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.
“We hug her a little harder every night now.”
Alan is the opposite of moist.
was not ready to speak with my mother. My
and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee.
I wondered if the tooth for a tooth part disturbed anyone else.
The guests segregated themselves into two groups, the tearful and the dry.
blood splurting from the wound like stigmata.
When you die, you become perfect.
Didn’t have babies till she was, like, thirty,
looked down from above like a spiteful little god,
The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
“No, the girl had to apologize too, to the class. ‘Young ladies must be in control of their bodies because boys are not.’”
was becoming obsessed with the girl.
Two tall boys discussing death and house parties.