Four days after the initial shit, another pile of human shit was found, this time by the foreman himself, who was checking the inventory of an item located in an ill-lit and rarely visited corner of the warehouse. He immediately called a meeting.
I want to deny him but he’s playin’ it natural and attentive. He’s good but I ain’t sure if he knows he’s good or if he’s just as polite as he’s coming off.
She looked better and better to herself in his bathroom mirror as she washed up and got all ready to spend the night with him in his warm bed.
I put a stone at each corner of the paper to hold it still beneath the fan in our bedroom. The instructions were simple.
A furniture delivery arrives, as my mother warned me upon leaving for the store that it might, and two nieces who have hidden themselves in a cabinet come out at the sound of the doorbell to ogle the brightly-colored truck in the driveway.
Sitting still can be tough on a body, just as the shifting earth, and plunging and thawing temperatures can be hard on a pipe.
Jeanette has gotten many notes in bars before. Many men have spoken to her too.
The world does not write enough odes
to in-betweenness—the way you can be
together / feel apart / apart / feel... more
My sister called me the morning after that dream to tell me that the family cat was dying. It was the last cat that was still alive from the time I had lived with my parents.
Previously on... Episode 1: "The Landing"
Yoda had nothing with him other than the clothes on his back and the... more
All day Iphigenia
so far from the man I came to see.
Haven’t we tired of famous men? Shouldn’t I
have my shoulders back, chin... more
I didn’t realize, when we were falling in love, that her father was a pathological extrovert.
3) Almost all seemingly-ruined meals can be salvaged if you add something. About 80 percent of the time, that something is wine. And if a meal is going to fail, let it fail spectacularly.
the guy on NPR says. He says that carrots are still living
when you bite into them, that they have the... more
People are still here! Said the dog’s eyes.
There is a ceramic pot full of my mother’s cigarette butts on the front steps of my childhood home, hot-glued back together by my father after one of our cats saw a chipmunk, and went for it.
The first time I went to the opera I went because I wanted to see a man go to hell. My dad got us tickets to... more
it's dead at the bar so I say
"sure but I'm not in college
and I'm not wearing underwear
A dog would live too long. An axolotl would stink the house. Reptile equipment is confusing, complex. I’m allergic to cats. What I really... more
I have a tattoo on my back that’s almost a secret. My partner is the only one who has looked up close. It feels like it’s sometimes... more
My dad says the sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass every day. He says if you ain’t the lead dog the scenery never changes. If you can’t run with the big dogs then stay on the porch.
