You’re not going to throw this away, are you? she says, and she’ll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the salt shaker. No, Mrs. Peacock, by all means, you take them. They’ll come in...
You want to be French, Mary Frances, that's your problem, but instead you're just another American.I went to the window for that one an saw a marriage disintegrate before my eyes. Poor Mary Frances in...
You spend hours wrestling with yourself, trying to keep your vision intact, your intensity undiminished. Sometimes I have to stick my head under the tap to get my wits back. And for what? You know wha...
You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But wh...
Yes,' he said. 'That's it. They'd kick him and beat him with a switch. Then if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.''Saint Nicholas would kick you?''Well,...
Why do you think she did it? I asked as we stepped back into the sunlight. For that’s all any of us were thinking, had been thinking, since we got the news. Mustn’t Tiffany have hoped that whatever pi...
While the mini-series based upon novels generate a good deal of interest, it’s these real-life dramas that tend to draw a larger audience. Why? I chalk it up to five simple words we use in every print...
While I was gone Hugh, Manuela, and Dario attended Franck’s surprise fortieth-birthday party. One of the guests was a sophisticated mother of three who announced that she hated the zoo at the Jardin d...
When it’s my turn, I’ll open my mouth, unable to speak, and feel a little tap on my wrist. Time to stand up, my watch will whisper. Then, before killing myself, I’ll say one last time, I am standing u...
When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up. A policeman or a fireman or one of those guys who works with high-tension wire...
Upon returning from the store, he would put the meat into the freezer, hide his favorite fruits in the bathroom cabinet, and stuff everything else into the crisper. It was, of course, too late for cri...
Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. Is thems the thoughts of cows? I’d ask the butcher, pointing to the calves’ brains displayed in...
There was my life before I told a strange woman in a negligee that I was a homosexual, and now there would be my life after, two chapters so dissimilar in style and content that they might have been w...
There are only two places to get robbed: TV and the real world. On television you get your stuff back. In the real world, if you're lucky, the policeman who responds to your call will wonder what kind...
Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You’re trash. Your family’s trash...
The one titled Romance included the following: Would you like a drink? You’re a fantastic dancer. You look like some cousin of mine. The latter would work only if you were Asian, but even then it’s a...
The child opened her beak even wider, and the stork let out a moan. It really wouldn’t hurt you to take an interest in others, she said. I tell you I’m depressed, I tell you I feel cornered and lonely...
The Romanians really do lead the world when it comes to cursing. What have you got for me? I asked a woman from Transylvania who was now living in Vienna.Shove your hand up my ass and jerk off my shit...
Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels. What made this exceptionally disturbing was that all our towels were fudge-colored. You’d be drying your hair when, too lat...
Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it t...