He committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best...
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
People say time be like a river. That’s bullshit. You can swim upstream and downstream in a river. Can you do that with time? Hell, no. Time ain’t no river. Time is a big fucking razor blade scraping...
Learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?
Reality abides in the eyes.
Remember what Aristotle said! she cries. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace! Horace? What did Horace say, Pithy? Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, be...
Searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the
Blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as untouchables.
She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.
Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible powe...
When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appella...
County rescue boat to recover the corpse. Normally, I would
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.
Into another identity. And I
The female memory defies explanation.
The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.
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