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Jobs & Workexpand_moreAs soon as her grandparents left, BLAM, the dance in her died.
My first suicidal ideations occurred to me when I was ten, eleven, twelve.
The Warsaw Pact invaded in 1968 and soon banned Hrabal’s work.
Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.
Lust for power and money undermined their morality and common sense.
The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.
I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.
Our culture cherishes a fantasy of a certain writerly existence.
She had learned that it was easy to get Sylvi to do things.
my baba sits in a midwest garage with the hood propped open.
Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.
Descent jumps and jostles, nausea drops me back to the floodplain.
He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.
Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.
Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.
I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London.
What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?
“I’ve already submitted the course grades,” Costa said warily.
There was an intimacy to the sound that thrilled me.
“Werewolf Seized in Southend!” “Man Who Made Love to Pavements!”
Richard Bausch
The alert says Warning: Wild Exotic Animals Loose.
By the end of my trip to St. Thomas, I had discovered a reason to live.
The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.
She alone knew how he could be swept up, tender interior laid bare.
Last year alone, every American choked to death on a red balloon.
If he was cheating on her, he was cheating on her paintings as well.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
It never occurred to me that I was being sold too, standing inside my box. Basil was annoyed. All that training he’d given me going to waste on art? I’ve been selling cigarettes, I said, as if it were a credential.
