One time, there were two men, who ran a beauty parlor, three doors down from the evangelical "Four Square Church and Tabernacle." It had been five days since the six o'clock

He opened the book and saw his dad. The pipe. The estranged Senator's wife and of course, the maple scone. What he couldn't believe were the photos. How could

She stopped to take a shot of some swans roosting in a rice field, when suddenly the sky came alive with a cacophony of sound and flapping wings. She stood there, stunned, gaping.

I can't remember the moment it came to me...that I would be the last one. It should have been obvious and a conclusion easily derived from the first misstep, but for whatever

I pulled the plug, but the light bulb didn't blink. The entire house was lit up and buzzing. I flailed down the hall to the breaker and pulled them all, without effect. The doors

Tank & Zaya love sex. Tank pleases Zaya, & Zaya Tank. Tank thinks Zaya's breasts are clouds. Zaya craves Tank's buttery touch. Tank smooths her soul, hits Zaya's secret nasty spot

No one thought the snow would pile up so fast. But at 2:00 when school was over, it was clear to everyone that we wouldn't be going home.

In the days that would follow, I remembered speaking the words that ended us. They tasted salty in my mouth and I couldn't tell if I was remembering the tears or tasting them again

Every single box in the toy store now had all of the pertinent information in English and Spanish. The way he could tell the expensive ones from the cheap ones, they had French too

"Let's ride," he said. Plumes of blood and gristle rained down on his lips. The salty copper of the kill overran his tongue. The vomit awoke, where it slept deep in the pit of

Grandmother turned her head just a little too far to still be alive, and to still be human. The sound of bones grinding and popping as she did, also didn't help her convince me

Por fin se acerca el 31 de Diciembre y en toda la casa ya se respira el olor a fiesta.

So he broke down and bought the nook. When he turned it on their was a message. It was strange because the message from a dead person named Ralphie. The message

The worst part of it all is that my husband now looks at me with a tinge of disappointment in the back of his glance - mixed with anxiety about the future. He blames himself, but

"Everyone sucks. The world sucks. Buying stupid crap sucks, after a while. The majority of the crayons in the box suck," then he stopped. His son was only four and looked upset

Marsh supermarkets would sell homogenized milk with caps that said "HOMO" on top. I thought they were hilarious and collected a bunch of them – and kept them for 20 years before I

As the little people began there dance, the unicorn continued to beg for more. How could this be so?

Carl had been working for his boss for twenty years. He'd worked his way up from coal miner to vice president of operations. Then his boss' son fumbled into the company and took

Absolutely the worst thing he had ever done was to look inside that case. He should have known from the stench

You & I are like ice cream & pie. You make me feel all... a la mode! We're so different. And yet my crunch & your cream make a delectable team, don't you think? I wish you & I were