But I go back down near the water with Steppa to look for treasure. We find a white shell like a snail, but when I curl my finger inside, he's gone out. Keep it, say Steppa. But what about when he com...
Are stories true?...They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today.So they're fake?No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.
And the flames are every colour of the rainbow.They can't be, observed Daffy.Well, they are, she said cheekily. Have you been there, that you know so much about it?No, said Daffy, very calm, but I'd w...
All this reverential—I’m not a saint. Ma’s voice is getting loud again. I wish people would stop treating us like we’re the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I’ve been finding stuff...
All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake th...
A strident female voice causes men's ears to close.
A fast didn't go fast; it was the slowest thing there was. Fast meant a door shut fast, firmly. A fastness, a fortress. To fast was to hold fast to emptiness, to say no and no and no again.
Says the headline. Blanche skips over the details she already knows. How bizarre to see what she lived through last night turned into an item tucked between stock prices and Crazy Horse whupping the a...
We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.
We go in a skyscraper that's Paul's office, he says he's crazy busy but he makes a Xerox of my hands and buys me a candy bar out of the vending machine. Going down in the elevator pressing the buttons...
Today is one of the days when Ma is Gone.She won't wake up properly. She's here but not really. She stays in Bed with the pillows on her head.Silly Penis is standing up, I squish him down.I eat my hun...
She gets sick of things fast, it’s from being an adult.
Pretending to misremember a name was such a reliable way to annoy.
Please, he added. I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!
Now I feel bad I didn’t give her the second quarter. Grandma says that’s called having a conscience.
Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.
I’ll be in Heaven getting your room ready.
Is there a sense in which you miss being behind a locked door? Ma turns to Morris. Is she allowed to ask me such stupid questions? The
In the year 1752 it was announced that the second of September would be followed by the fourteenth. The matter was merely one of wording, of course; time in its substance was not to undergo any change...
I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now sh...