Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.
Life is full of endless possibilities. I tried valiantly not to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom,
La noria vacía se alza ante nosotros ucando pasamos por su lado, un círculo impreciso apenas visible en la bruma, y, si exceptuamos unos pescadores mexicanos, no hay nadie alrededor.
Julian’s not at the house in Bel Air, but there’s a note on the door saying that he might be at some house on King’s Road. Julian’s not at the house on King’s Road either, but some guy with braces and...
If I often wished the world were a different place, I also knew—and horror movies helped reinforce this—that it never would be, a realization that in turn led me to a mode of acceptance.
I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
I am a ghost to this man, I’m thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally a...
How easy it would be to scare the living wits out of this fucking guy. Kimball is utterly unaware of how truly vacant I am. There is no evidence of animate life in this office, yet still he takes note...
How can I tell McDermott that this is a very disjointed time of my life and that I notice the walls have been painted a bright, almost painful white and under the glare of the fluorescent lights they...
Clay, did you ever love me?I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said.I asked if you ever loved me?On the terrace the sun bursts into my eyes and for one blinding moment I see m...
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
And, Price adds, smiling, if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.
When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me...
Once you start choosing how people can and cannot express themselves then this opens the door to a very dark room in the corporation from which there's really no escape. Can't they in return police yo...
Nonchalant,
And the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take off my clothes and lie on her bed and she goes into the bathroom and I wait a couple of minutes and th...
You don't think it's– and now she looks around the restaurant before leaning in, whispering–AIDS?Oh no, nothing like that, I say, though immediately I wish I had paused long enough before answering to...
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
The client had the boudin blanc, the roasted chicken and the cheesecake, he says.Cheesecake? I say, confused by this plain, alien-sounding list.What sauce or fruits were on the roasted chicken? What s...
Sheen's supposed propensity for violence against women hadn't hurt his popularity with female fans either, and if anyone wants to know what that means, then that's a story for maybe fifty other books.