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"I like the cut of your jib, Sir. I won't deny it." The Uber driver looked at the lady in the back. She was beaming a big smile at him. "Thank you. I didn't know I had a cut jib."
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I discovered last night that I can not sleep with socks on. They snag on the blankets just enough that on top of my restless legs I could do without. Gerard Manley Hopkins's God's
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When I awoke I found myself inside an empty crude oil storage silo. The only like came from the open hatch at the top of the tank, some 200 feet above me. I doubted being lowered.
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I knew what was coming when I closed my eyes and saw the bleeding hotdogs pleading with their ISIL captors. Sure enough, when I opened them my mother-in-law had come for a "visit".
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A visit that required she bring her whole bedroom set & a neighbor. ("To get her around.") Where is she going to sleep? "She can sleep on the floor by my bed." I looked at my wife.
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My glare must have reminded her about the roast because she said, "Oh, the roast" and fled the room. I sighed inside and turned to face my mother-in-law. "No need for suck drastic
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For some unknown reason, I can neither say nor spell asdfjlgt8eh. See what I mean? I'm sure the real asdljeiis, doesn't have any of those letters in it. Or sounds when I try to say
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It wasn't a secret that he was doing this under duress. Everybody understood that was the real message. It just happened to be Ted this time. It could've been any of you. Or me. It
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The filaments of the ideas you never had lay rusting on the sill collecting bug corpses. I meant to give them to you someday. The bug corpses. To highlight, again, where we stood.
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It was bad enough when President Willow Khaleesi Chernobyl Garnite-emon made me Exobiologist of the Still United States (ExOTSUS). But when she raised it to a Cabinet position, I
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To see the system inherent in the violence, experience the plight of slaves/ to reach beyond time's fetters, make particles behave lives waves/ to test those winter sweaters. This
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I don’t recall at what age it happened. But one day it was finally ok for us kids to have soda pop. Our lives were changed from Before soda pop to After soda pop. Mine was a Neji.
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I spelled that one wrong. I realized it the nanosecond after I’d tapped Send. For all I know, that might be the way they spelled it in the 1973 that somebody else reading it lived.
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The Night They Raided Minskys. I suddenly want to watch me some Natalie Wood. Would Natalie want to watch my Wood watching? Can she watch my wood? Wax my wood? Wax poetic about it?
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Shackleton converted his garage into a Victorian gentlemen's club. As we sat in comfortable silence, he started from his chair. "Andrei, close that box before it steals your mind!"
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"Chang chang zalama. Chang chang zalama." The Instructress walked into the strip-mall Transcendence Center. "You are all idiots. You think that chanting that stupid phrase will
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Five thousand years later, after everything had gone all indeterminate and beautiful, Hrengor felt his passing coming on, and knew not where to lay his head and tentacles. M
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"They're deploying a damper field. Have you noticed? Significant memories, tunes, colognes from our pasts -- all blocked or at least muffled. We need to fight them!" I knew what he
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Head banging with my metal cat to Ravel’s Bolero. I think the soles of my feet are bruised. Then WHAM! An ad for COVID-19 insurance for your pets. With a double indemnity clause!
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Listening to Mædieval Babes singing Scarsbury Fair when I’m struck by question, “How True was the love if the other lives and there is a were involved.?”