Being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn’t especially minded that.
Benzene running through a school basement. It’s interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Ame...
Dandling
Fact our shoes filled with mud and our clothes turned to slime, and it was the farthest thing from pleasant. Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the for...
In the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.
Less the same in her own home, which she’d had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester’s mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
My books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
On the weekends. He’d mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer’s absence
Palindrome.
She considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
Some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She
Sounding surprised. That’d make a nice hostess gift.
South, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. You could just barely see through it, enough to make
Stopped: a final swish in the tall grass
Sweet orange Jaune Flammes, which are just the right size to slice in half, sprinkle with salt and thyme, and bake for several hours until they resemble cow flops (the recipe says shoes, if you prefer...
That mothers’ and daughters’ hearts can be crushed so repeatedly without learning to defend themselves.
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
The help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a
The unbearable persistence of hope
The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?
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