I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.
Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his fa...
And what else is she? Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, A bitchweasel?A bitchweasel! Jazza's face lit up. She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.
With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue,...
What the hell is wrong with you? he asked.It was a good question.
We're going to die, Keith said, the moment he was gone. This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.
Want to make it a date, haircut?' she asked. 'As soon as I can scrape together the cash for the train ticket?'What's with the haircut, ?' he asked. 'I thought we were past that.'We'll be past that,'...
The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way.
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
Oh my God! said one of the Ambers. Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow? She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of hu...
Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal.Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
It was fine, I said stiffly. We played Mouse Trap.Is that what they're calling it these days? she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself...
I am a mass of contradictions.
He had let Aunt Peg live in his house and married her, so clearly he had a thing for flaky American types who liked to sneak off in the dead of night. That was, as Ginny remembered it, how America won...
Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like tangentially Swedish is not the best way to go.
After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people knew and wanted to relate to. The one people wanted to comfort and fix. And there was another me,...
A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.
You should really, like, dump her and date me instead,' May heard herself saying, all confidence. 'I'm not as irritating. I mean, I'm irritating, but I'm not as bad as she is. And you know me better....
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. W...
The day was ridiculous.In fact, the situation was so serious I thought they had to be joking - like maybe they staged a special first day to psych people out. I had one class in the morning, the myste...