Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.
The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk.
You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5)
I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.
I am exiting the wider world, to return to my homeland of bullying, psychosis, and bad taste. Forgive me. It is a medical matter. Once
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end.As for flying, Dose never even glanced at...
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to appreciate the oregano-heavy garlic...
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal di...
Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’...
Laughing at Rapper's Delight's no revenge, and anyway it wasn't your idea, and anyway it's . Dean Street's another story, a realm of knowledge unapplicable here.You've just about finished leaving Dean...
I’d forgotten my identity as the world’s most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again,...
Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
Open duh computer. Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
La calidad de una cena la determinan las conversaciones secundarias que la mayoría de la mesa no oye.
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