If Kris could play enough of these, in the right order, without stopping, she could block out everything: the dirty snow that never melted, closets full of secondhand clothes, overheated classrooms at...
She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.
There’s nothing waiting inside but retail slavery, endless exploitation, and personal subjugation to the whims of our corporate overlords. If
Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.
The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking he...
Wasting food is no joke! he’d shout. That’s how Karen Carpenter died!
Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his pa...
That was her nature. Fail and quit. If you cut her open, it was fail and quit right down to her bones.
Friend is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse.
She had nothing. Except her music.
Kris had been alive long enough to know it was dangerous when men accused you of being better than them.
It's April 1988 and the world belongs to them.
I can pick a fight in an empty fucking elevator. 'No one left to fight'. Fuck you
All great works must begin with a sacrifice.
Abby was beginning to feel like everything was too much. She was beginning to feel like nothing she did made any difference.
Of course, every mother thinks her baby is perfect, but at some point, as her home fills with dead bodies, she has to face facts and admit that the fruit of her womb is a face-eating beast spawned fro...
In Brain Watch (1985), superpsychic powers are the result of splitting a doctor’s noggin into a quadruple brain, unlocking his ability to project illusions, become superstrong, and control the pigment...
We’re getting out of here, she said. The store will try to stop us. It’ll disorient you, get inside your head, try to confuse you and control you. But if you stay focused, you can block it out. You ha...
Amy would honor the first commandment of keeping her job: Do not look like an idiot in front of anyone who can fire you.
Here was the other option: the tranquilizing chair. It was always waiting for her. It always wanted her back. It always wanted her to quit again, to sit down and never get back up.In the end, Amy thou...
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