My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.
The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, m...
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. They stood like the naked pipes of a vast derelict calliope, their mouths cut into frantic vents. And...
Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway.I’m drunk. Drunk people tell the truth.Like hell they do. Besides you’re not that drunk.Then dare me something.I snorted....
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
You have to believe me without proof. That's what faith is — believing without proof.' They got up from the bank of stones. It was getting late, the shadows lay cool and lengthened on the grass and th...
I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death.
Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the ti...
The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links. The short short, however, doesn't as a rule have even that much - you don't...
There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the meaning of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except...
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider than your body, down which you are drawn while the white faces above recede. You try to reach them b...
Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable……a lot of people don’t like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good en...
If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.
His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn’t say where you would be licking the salt from.
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
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