“It’s scalable, it’s cheap and you don’t need a skill set because you just put, I don’t know, five crazy people who are hard line in an office in Tehran, then send tens of thousands of emails. If they get 10 of them, it’s enough,” he said....
But the scent of fry oil kept transporting me to our first date—cheap drinks, greasy food, and a girl who made me laugh until it hurt. The place had been a dive, with one of the ceiling lights flickering and buzzing the whole time, but it’d had a student discount and killer ...
She left a torn page from a German-American Bund pamphlet in the back of the cheap plywood dresser. She left, not worrying about fingerprints on the doorknob. She didn’t leave any. “Nothing as exciting as you may imagine. It was all victory gardens and scrap drives for me. The ...
I was there when the same lady, very incensed, returned the 5-1/4″ system disk (then not cheap) for a replacement the third time because it stopped booting, When he finally asked her how she was storing it she blithely said that she stuck it on the refrigerator with a magnet. I r...
'Talk is Cheap' Virgin 'Talk is Cheap' Keith Richards (1988):Mick Jagger had issued his platinum-selling solo debut in 1985, but to this point Richards had refrained from working outside the framework of the Rolling Stones. 'Talk is Cheap,' a brilliantly nasty little aside that went gold...
'Talk is Cheap' Virgin 'Talk is Cheap' Keith Richards (1988):Mick Jagger had issued his platinum-selling solo debut in 1985, but to this point Richards had refrained from working outside the framework of the Rolling Stones. 'Talk is Cheap,' a brilliantly nasty little aside that went gold...
They remain hunched and silent, warming their hands on the styrofoam cups of cheap coffee. Hands that are dirty beyond cleaning, as though they’ve been burrowing in the dirt. “I’m not going to ask what happens. I know you won’t tell me anyway.” They both grunt and sip from thei...
Cheap wood, which will not last even one of their short generations. I could fashion one that would be a better fit.“Finally,” the foreman says, already half up, a satchel dangling from one shoulder. He is pale as milk and as pleasant, a wispy elf who would not have lasted to ...
I’m not one of those writers who say, “Oh, ideas are cheap, I have a million of them.” I don’t. Anthony: The novel is written as more of a discovery/milieu story. What sort of obstacles did you encounter while writing this sort of piece? Nancy: Just the usual obstacles: the...
Author’s Note:This story began as some cheap jokes with just enough narrative to string them together. I think I began it after a humorous peek at the Wikihow article on exorcism. The social commentary appeared before the final draft, but it took several more rounds of submission and revis...