One signal conversation, which she had lingered near for ten minutes, between two woman German professors, had concerned a support group they both belonged to for people with an overwhelming compulsio...
Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine. The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness a...
Ron Paul, who, as someone said, wouldn’t have regulated a sewer pipe running through his child’s playroom.
Poking around in this dump, as it would be
Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.
Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was...
She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another
She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the food hanging over the table, the heads turning this way and tha...
She did not think it any coincidence that ideas denigrating literary authorship had taken center stage simultaneously with the emergence of formerly silent voices for whom the act of writing, and publ...
She didn't relate this memory to Janet, but she did think right then that all golden ages are discovered within. No one would ever know that her father, Carl, the endless Iowa horizon, a pan of shortb...
But no matter how receptive his pretty and sweet speech therapist looked, no matter how softly and encouragingly she said, Go ahead, try it. Say it, still, the sounds came out like mooing.
What Is Really Going On in Spain? was another. Who’s the Boss? was about whether members of the
Hands behind his head. He took another deep breath. The whore
And the horticulturalists really believed that gardening would save the world that agriculture was destroying.
So it was with Vigdis’ neighbors. Folk recalled how fat she was, how proud, though only the daughter of a cowman, and how niggardly. Serving boys had been beaten for taking a bit of honey, and neighbo...
War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.
THE TWINS WERE eighteen months old now, walking (and standing and staring and screaming and sitting) just like other children more or less their age, and Andy found herself increasingly preoccupied wi...
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between the...
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
She had a cloth in her hands. She said, Frankie hungry?
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