He wanted enlightenment just as she did, just as they all did. Right, he said, handing her back the flyer, but where do I park?
But for now—for this thumping, glorious, wind-scoured moment—he was sailing.
Crossed the room and lit a cigarette, though smoking was discouraged on campus and about as stupid and self-destructive an activity as anything our species has devised.
HIV, AIDS and maybe even Ebola pulsing through the circulatory pathways of our criminally expanding species, pandemic, everything a pandemic, apocalypse festering in the blood.
The jukebox started up with the sound of shattering glass and rocks against the flanks of buses.
And music. What would a wedding be without it?
You can’t be serious, he said. You mean this is the big secret, this is why you screwed us all over—because of some forgotten shit that went down hundreds of years ago?
In de Pekel Zitten
For weeks in advance of the date he would storm and rage and fulminate about the inequity of it all, and the old contumacious fire-breathing spirit arose like a phoenix from the ashes of his contentme...
I guess I was dimly aware—way out there on the periphery of my consciousness—of what I was doing to the poor abused corpus of old mother earth, and I did recycle (when I got around to it, which was ma...
For some strange reason, probably having to do with the moon shot, UFOs and the accoustic quality of the snow-laden air, her voice seemed to boom out across the water as if she were leading cheers thr...
My fellow drivers, riding their brakes and clinging to the wheel as if it were some kind of voodoo fetish that would protect them against drunks, curves, potholes, errant coyotes and sheet metal carve...
She was wearing some sort of fur hat pulled down to her eyes and a raccoon coat over a flesh-colored body stocking. And boots. Red, blue, yellow and orange frilled and spangled high-heeled cowgirl boo...
The first time they’d docked at Peterskill there’d been a bunch of jerks waiting for them with signs that read WAKE UP, AMERICA: PETERSKILL DID!, and at Cold Spring a troop of big-armed women in what...
They caught him again, at the foot of the woods, and he fought them with his teeth and his claws but they were bigger, stronger, and they carried him back as they always had and always would because t...
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and the failure memorab...
The earth was running out of resources, global warming was beginning to be recognized as science fact and not science fiction, and if man was to evolve to play a part in things instead of being just a...
But it was on now, humming to life: a flicker, an adjustment of the dial, a new announcer, his voice shaken and hollow. Then the first image appeared, and it was devastating, the real world, the world...
But outside, in the desert, where the air was thin and light pollution unheard of, you could see right up into the back molars of the universe.
They were convicted of high treason and armed rebellion against the authority of the Crown (the brick constituting, for Stephanus’ purposes, a potentially lethal weapon—lethal, in any case, to manoria...
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