“But then the mind is easily gripped, meticulously tricked, even more easily flipped. There’s a word, cocina, which means ‘sty,’ in my language, but means kitchen in another.”
By Andra Nicolescu"Now I had never been crucified, but I had been in fights, so I knew something about the amount of blood a body could produce."
By Richard Johnston“I am not looking. None of my concern, I have to remind myself. A nice, respectable citizen doesn’t care what two cops are doing because he’s done nothing
By Vytautas Malesh“Marie arrived the day of the Eiffel Tower bomb threat. She wore a giant backpack and hiking boots, as if this were the Alps instead of the Latin
By J.T. Townley"But she knows that she is not Nick Carraway, she is not reliving her beloved story."
By Regina Tavani“Because he said that if he didn’t want to be here, he wouldn’t be here, you now think about that when he is not here.” They say, anyway,
By Delphine Bedient"Jeanette went home and called Social Services, who said there was nothing they could do about it because eccentric behavior was not enough grounds for an evaluation."
By Marléne Zadig"You can imagine the look on the poor lawyer’s face who first worked on this with us. Bless you, Jason. You deserved every penny."
By Meg Charlton"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace
By Tsipi Keller"She stood up and left me there, covered in my own gore and staring at what I once considered a very vital piece of human anatomy floating in
By Corey Skatula"It was the summer of 1937, in the August of my thirteenth year, and two months before I would, because of what happened that day, leave home forever."
By Jay Neugeboren“Look. When it gets bad for me, I want you to do me just like you did that dog.”
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