Everybody thought it was dotty, the way he gorged himself on peanut butter; he didn't care about anything in this world except horses and peanut butter. But he wasn't dotty, just sweet and vague and terribly slow; he'd been in the eighth grade three years when I ran away. Poor Fred...
Why do we essentially imply that there is a hierarchy of woe in the world, and if what’s troubling you is not at the top of the list (Are you a starving child in war torn Somalia? Do you have a brain tumor?) then whatever is troubling you is not that awful.Why the comparison t...
He stood on his back legs and pushed at the wooden fence posts. Terrified, Elli and I tried all the bear defense actions we knew. We yelled at the bear, hit pots hard,and fired blank shotgun shells into the air. Sometimes loud noises like these will scare bears off. Not this polar ...
“DON’T YOU EVER DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT AGAIN!” And then she pushed me, walked away, then I split—I left school. I just made a beeline to the exit and waited where
The only people I saw at Nvidia who didn’t look happy were the quality control technicians. In windowless laboratories underneath the north-campus bar, pallid young men wearing earplugs and T-shirts pushed Nvidia’s microchips to the brink of failure. The racket was unbearable, a constant whi...
“I pushed the company into a gamble on oolong tea, and it worked.” After our supplier dissolved, we took over a green tea store in Ueno, Tokyo with a large signboard saying “Ito En” and narrowed our merchandise down to green tea. At the time, green tea was sold in bulk in supe...
5.其实总有一段路、你会独自一边哭完一边走In fact, there is always a way, you will walk alone after crying 6.只有在物是人非后 人们才懂得怀恋Only when things are different from people can people understand nostalgia 7.不是小朋友了 撑不住以不能哭It's not a child. I can't stand it....
a toy shopping cart that she had been playing with earlier that day. I snapped and shoved the front of the cart into Tina’s stomach and pinned her to the side of the house. She let out a quick yelp before I pushed it harder to stop her cries. I had pushed all of the air from...
I felt like I couldn’t really relax, and questioned whether X was right and we should have just pushed onward to home. We woke up at 6 a.m to all this banging, and the stupid New Yorkers next door to us were leaving. We got to hear their entire conversation, as well as their ...
My dad stood up and walked toward me, took me by my elbow and pushed me toward the bathroom. He was silent. He slowly, methodically rolled up the hem of my pants to get them up to my knee and could see how I had cooked my leg. He sighed but still did not say a word. Made ...