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Humorexpand_moreHow many times had I passed it in a taxicab or walked within sight of it?
I care only about the little body wiggling in that plastic bassinet.
Now he’s grazing my books. The Bible is his favorite so far. He is a goat.
The waitress looked us over, wondering, I guess, if we were famous.
An owl, as large
and incongruous in the night sky as a flying man.
An owl, as large and incongruous in the night sky as a flying man.
Edward the Funny didn’t have much to laugh about in his midthirties.
The rich man adorns himself and the elegant man gets dressed.
I want to be rapt around your linger, not Thumbelina under your dumb.
A political tragedy you won’t lose any sleep over, told in just six words.
An ironic story about skepticism and education, in just six words.
Order gardening clogs, then realize you feel like a runaway nurse.
Ann Beattie in a wonderful reading of her story “Find and Replace."
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
A plus B; a child in peril, plus love, dissolution of, equals a story.
“You look like you’re about to fall over,” he says. “Are you all right?”
Let’s rummage through each other’s bodies like a blowout sale.
Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.
The mechanism and its crank pull us forever closer, you and I.
He was just a bully, uncivilized, out of control, and wanting to lash out.
He was just a bully, uncivilized, out of control, and wanting to lash out.
At Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau clicks like on the “Wilderness” page.
Tobias Wolff reading two stories aloud: "Say Yes" and "Her Dog."
Any good river should be fat, any good ocean should be worth meeting. A child won a hundred dollars by taking it from the tail of a muddy calf. I remember Robinhood too, but that feels like a different thing.
I’ve never heard of Badgley Mischka (A person? Two people? Man?)
Brod stopped her before she could fling the latte in Marcella’s face.
Colonel Hammer glares, willing us to attention. A few pilots sit up.
It’s a small deposit, but I’m putting my faith in reincarnation.
