glimpses shared by our authors
  • just saw brahms at the hollywood bowl, which is like sniffing an angel's flesh in a sulfur factory. i am in the place behind words. unattachment takes away the need ...
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  • He held his tanned hand out to me. I hesitate one second before putting it, a peace offering. We ran off the edge of the bank together and plunged into ...
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  • "-and I quote," a tired smile comes to the older man's face, "'a Jezebel who, in her desire for surpassing all others, has not only put to shame the famed ...
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  • Today has been one of those days.. where the words have been taken and my heart has been shattered. I miss my best friend more than, words can describe.. and ...
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  • 521 2453. his number was flashing across my cell fone. i was excited. it wud be the first time in THREE months we talked. i answered. he took forever to ...
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  • Aiden and the blondes show up about an hour later. I try not to look at their curvy bodies in the skimpy bikinis. Aiden doesn't even try. He stares at ...
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  • "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN I AM NOT HUMAN!" That was what Brendan Newhart was shouting at the doctor who had told him the news. He was standing in ...
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  • "What do you think?" Tommy said to me. "It think he's lying," I replied. "Why?" He asked, leaning back in the chair of the police station and flicking his lighter. ...
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  • Planned Parenthood in Phillipsburg was bad enough, my hands shaking the whole twenty minutes spent in the shoddy waiting room; trash of Pennsylvanian girls coming in (I say this not ...
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  • didn't leave my house until after dark yesterday when I walked down to the local dive bar where it smells like bleach and vomit and they sell pbr tall cans ...
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