I got the feeling Edna knew things about me that I didn’t know myself, that there was a collective presence here today, in both of us. “God tells us everything we need to know. It’s up to us to listen,” Edna
And it was in that living room where I showed my parents that there’s a certain type of preciousness in seeing their first names written by a kindergartener. When I was five-years-old, I liked to practice writing names, and if my handwriting back then could be described using only a ...
Susan parked in front of the store and I climbed out of the front seat and grabbed the large box that Fred Durst tried to deliver before I punched his lights out. “I don’t expect any trouble,” I told Susan, “but if you see the Madam, just honk twice.” After I shut the doo...
In spite of their efforts, Finley only has eyes for one person, and that’s Zeke Masters—the 6’4”, impossibly built, and ridiculously good-looking new man in town. Along with her nether regions, Finley’s journalistic spidey-senses tingle as to why he’s on sabbatical from Seattle. I...
“Take the magic egg, Vi.” His voice is a damp flutter. “In the back.” With a machined thunk, the trunk of the idling white Mercedes pops open. The EP woman is throat singing too, but not in words. Her grainy croon rises and falls. The EP man yodels a warped, screwed recitati...
night’s sleep. My throat was still horribly sore, but I dared not cough for fear of waking up everybody else. Nobody figured out how to turn off the lights in the library, so the light streamed into our classroom all night. I feel bad for the people who are sleeping in the ...
Their teacher cleared his throat. He glanced back at his notes on the white board; unfortunately, he hadn’t written anything there yet. “Hmmm,” he said. His eyes fell on his packet on the desk. “Ah! Exponents!” The lecture resumed; allowing the rest of the class to return to th...
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And without the rest of the world even knowing it I experienced my very first mind-fuck at that very instant. During the ride back afterward, crammed in the back of the wagon and hopped up on the speedball we had just seen, we were all already fighting over who would get to play each...
ache of needing to speak clutching at my throat, but I swallow the words and hold them back. “I will,” I say. “Say hi to Jon, okay?” “I will. Love you,” he says, but he hangs up before I can tell him that I love him, ...