My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus. Blind Bill grunted and spat. You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side? I don't think anybody's god is on our side.
Miss Temple, perhaps you will demonstrate the proper curtsy for us?Without ado, Cecily temple, She Who Can Do No Wrong, settles to the floor in a long, slow, graceful arc that seems to defy gravity. I...
Mary Lou wore the ring faithfully. She studied the coy girls the ones who pretended not to get the dirty joke that made Mary Lou stifle a laugh. The ones who practiced the shy downward glance who pret...
Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has.Why did you do that? I ask.He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. She need...
Jericho didn’t seem to know life beyond the pages of a musty old book, and he didn’t seem interested in knowing anything beyond that, either.
J.T Woodland, known as the cute one in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl, Boyz Will B Bo...
It was late; I’d been sleeping. I woke up to the sound of him crying. The ward was dark, with only the light from the nurses’ station bleeding in. ‘Kid,’ he said to me, and his voice… his voice was li...
It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.
It is the taste of forgetting. Of sleep and dreams with no waking. Never to long or yearn, to struggle or hurt or love or desire ever again. And I understand that this is what it truly means to lose y...
It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.
It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director making a movie about career women, but not if you're a teen girl talking about her homies.Good point, Pet...
Isn’t this what happens in the movies a lot? There’s some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all, ‘Oh, you’re gonna die or make a boatload of money or meet a girl. Now give me all your ca...
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true...
In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you...
In her fantasy, she imagined surrendering to a dominating Jericho. She’d liked it as a fantasy. There was something wild and hedonistic about the idea of allowing herself to be taken over by a big, st...
In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
In Chinatown, a large rock painted with a message— CHINESE GO HOME!— shattered the front window of Chong & Sons, Jewellers. An arsonist’s fire gutted the Wing Sing restaurant overnight; Mr. Wing stood...
If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.
I wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man on earth.If I were the last man on earth it’d be because you drove the other poor suckers to early graves.