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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One day Daniel Tosh walked into a store and over the intercome said haha its the gay man!

While in his room I slowly wrapped my mouth around the warmthness of

Elvin stared at the handcuff that connected him to his valise. "Why must I be a man with a suitcase?"

It wasn't any fun for me bursting out of her belly. It ticks me off. There's always sympathy for the human growing pod, but none for the alien spawn. What's up with that?

My fingers tingled as I prepared for my first gig as a guitarist with a rock band. So here I was, the room was dark, the joint smelled of stale drink, I was nervous, yet ...

She had taken her son to Disneyland. The photos were developed. She couldn't take her eyes off the one with her son and Princess Jasmine. There was something...oh wait, what