Sometimes when I was on the subway platform, when my heart was beating really fast, the train would come roaring down the tracks and the ground would shake beneath us, ...
“I imagine my reflection is another woman, a strange creature who can float next to my window, and keep pace with a speeding train. Some kind of witch. Her expression ...
Sometimes, the knowledge of what is coming keeps me awake. I slide out of our bed and walk into the bathroom. I lock the door, stand before the long, wall-bound ...
I imagined how my father must feel to return to the land of his birth after fifty-two years. More than the physical aspect of traveling long and far it was ...
I can tell she’s newly arrived from India. She has that smell which wraps itself around women and men and children newly arrived from India; of pickles and incense and ...
We soon got to the sex and lies. At first he told me he and his wife were in an ‘open relationship.’ Then he said he was torn between his ...
Jamie’s stories died that night, because all stories are based on two things. There should be at least one listener who appreciates them. And there should be hope on which ...
To understand our family is to know about the warehouse. Magic things happened there. Our fortunes fluctuated. We ran a small international company by each of us occupying every single ...
Forgive your country every once in a while.
If that is not possible, go to another one.
-Ron Padgett
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Richie Nelson got shot on a Saturday night in March in his parents’ garage while hosting a party for the cast and crew of the school’s recent production of The ...
I don’t recall the ride back to our dock, just the throb in my temples the following day, the set of my father’s jaw when we passed each other and ...
You have to see it coming to be really afraid, another climber had once told him as he panted in shock and pain after a twenty-foot tumble toward a broken ...
At first she liked the best of us, the quiet ones with jobs who had showers in the same place every morning. But she was a thirsty girl and soon ...
Selkie stories are the worst kind of stories. They’re always so formulaic.
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Just as I’m about to turn away, I find my glance drawn back to the bag… and that’s when I catch him, catch the mouse giving me the fleetest of ...
You said you were having a sleepover, you say. Your daughter nods.
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Now she felt stupid, foolish. She didn’t know drunk, hadn’t known that this was drunk, that this is what it felt like. Another snicker shuddered around the group as, one ...
Together we were like the love that everyone goes around waiting for, you know, the love…
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I kissed her. I let the tip of my tongue wriggle into the gap between her front teeth.
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Is hell an animated GIF that was hardly funny the first time round.
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