When we made up the game, we thought we were very funny. You stood on your roof and I stood on mine, and when a crow came to roost we both got one shot. The goal was to make our shots an angle with its vertex in the bird. Day after day we failed, and […]
Jars and jars of it. At first I didn’t understand why I was buying the stuff. I never ate it; I just let it pile up in my house. Only when every shelf in my kitchen was packed with peanut butter did I realize I felt safer than I ever had in my life.
Later we started to regret the way we’d treated him. Searching for a way to make things right, we began to put out food for the little vermin that scuttled around our house. At first we were repulsed at the way they multiplied, but soon we began to find them quite charming. Their shells are […]
Sundays are my day off, so that’s when I read your mail. I only take the things you weren’t expecting: new catalogs, letters from old lovers. I know which relatives you talk to and which ones you don’t, so I always take the birthday card from your aunt Sheila — you never notice when it […]
We wake, and walk the cloisters. We wash our singlets and our sheets. We make the daily meal. Ingredients:
water,
rice,
tomato paste,
the rumor of God.
So, CNN.com wants to know who I think should have a baby, and it has somehow categorized this question as political. As I struggled to fathom how I could formulate an opinion on such a question, I clicked through to the actual poll:
I was trying to formulate a joke about this but I think seriousness […]
When I was ten, I rode the bus with twins. Paul and Justin — they hated each other. Once in October I sat next to Paul. I was bringing home a hollow pumpkin filled with hot soup. Justin had been nursing a grudge all day. He came down the aisle at an intersection and […]
Hi folks,
I’m trying something new here: a story every day. Since I have to write one every day, they will probably be short. Try to think of them as a new kind of art form that is a little worse and more frequent than actual fiction.
Here is the first:
A Cure
Elizabeth was a beauty with […]