But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well...Send her back to where she came.Or redu...
As a staff babysitter, it's my responsibility, after punching in, to ask for my assignment for the day. That's when I find out whether I'll be washing strained carrots or burger fixings out of my hair...
And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting....
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they wer...
A few minutes later, the lifeguard came trudging back in our direction, looking no less handsome in wet hair than he had in dry. He swung himself up to his tower, spoke briefly into his radio - probab...
Once in a while you regret the road not takenStart giving up on the plans you madeOnce in a while you feel so forsakenWondering why so many took, not gaveOnce in a while you ask, how could this happen...
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
Expounding
And standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's pron...
Worse, in the video for it (which is also played everywhere constantly), Boris is singing to a girl who is dying in a hospital bed, and Boris is telling her (lyrically) that he'll give her a million s...
Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello? Just . Crunch. Bye.
Why hadn’t she said anything? It wouldn’t have been weird for her to tell me, Pierce, back when I was in high school and had terribly poor judgment, I used to go out with an extreme douche.
Why doesn’t the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information.
Why did we come back this way instead of popping up somewhere less…cramped? I asked, substituting the word for I was trying not to feel weirded out that I was in my boyfriend’s crypt. It was only a...
We can take as slowly as you want, but you know it’s too late now to change your mind, Pierce, he said, in a warning tone.Of course, I said. I could see I had approached this all wrong. Where, when y...
Today Rommel had on a mink bolero jacket. I am not even joking. It was dyed lavender to match the one slung across Grandmère’s shoulders.
To keep one's marriage brimming,With love in the wedding cup,Whenever you're wrong admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children. he muttered. So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?If you could answer the question, I said as poli...
That’s the problem with your generation, Amelia. You all want happy endings. I was so stunned I think my eye stopped twitching momentarily. We don’t, actually, I said. We want endings that leave us wi...
That’s not all they ever show, John said. They show your heart’s desire…what you most want to see-or who-at the time you’re looking.Then mine must be broken, I said. It made sense. Why wouldn’t mine b...