When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is not the same size as a large T-shirt at, say, Old Navy. The gas statio...
We sat out there in silence for a minute and then Gus said, I wish we had that swing set sometimes.The one from my backyard?Yeah. My nostalgia is so extreme that I am capable of missing a swing my bu...
We fell. We got up. We ran.
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when r...
Tothom acaba marxant, vaig pensar. […] Res no és etern, ni tan sols la Terra. Segons el que havíem après, el Buda deia que el patiment era conseqüència del desig, i que la desaparició del desig implic...
Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still...
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.
There will come a time, I said, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did an...
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future....
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said.'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us...
The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (This is not a pipe.)I just don’t get...
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.
That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.
Still perfect, he said. Read to me.This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your sleeping mother. It has, like, sodomy and angel dust in it, I said.You just named two of my...
Soy como. Como. Soy como una granada, mamá. Soy una granada y en algún momento voy a estallar y me gustaría reducir al mínimo las víctimas, ¿de acuerdo?Mi padre ladeó un poco la cabeza hacia un lado,...
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tort...