I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape,...
Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!
When something happens to me - good, bad, boring it doesn't matter - I have to someone to make it count. There's no point in anything happening if you can't talk about it.
Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want, he said.Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison.
Stuart's a wizard with those kinds of things, she said.What kinds of things?Oh, he can find anything online.Debbie was obviously one of those parents who still hadn't quite grasped that using the Inte...
Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want t...
Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did.
Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!
She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again.He's got a new girlfriend? she said quietly. Thank god. You must be happy.Yeah....
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall.St...
People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing ha...
People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.
Listen, haircut...'Did you just call me ?' he asked.Yes. You know there's no reason we can't go online. It's crazy.'Why'd you call me haircut?' he asked, touching his hair. 'Is it because I have a gre...
Hot tea, he said, holding the cups. It's just wrong.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?'Pete looked like he wanted to...
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, Do you have a reasonably int...
No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me...