She says, “Can’t you see I’m busy?” Then, because she’s a good mother, she says that one day, come ... board. She dips her hand into the bowl and then sprinkles droplets across one of my father’s twill work ... summer, she’ll play with me all day long. She promises. She’s a schoolteacher who spends her days giving ...
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the curse." "Oh, you're not due for a week yet, more." Briefly her ... Page 153 from Issue 59 "But, you know," her hand leads my glance downward to her ... feet, their perfect turnout, the slender pink cylinders of her toe shoes, "not as much as ...
Fall / Winter 2002
at me. I said, She's not good enough for you, Spot. He blinked and yawned. The Little Rose ... She said, What is Lake Superior? And Alex said she was correct, but she was not. Am I going to have to ... mutism. She seems to be awake-her eyes are opened and mobile, but she is fixed and unresponsive. People ...
Page 96 from Issue 80 Now with you young people there will come a time when they will want to kill ... doesn't matter what they think. We're what counts. Our meetings are beautiful. You should come. ... seems to see it. We dance in the flames and think we are walking and we wave to one another and the ...
a rather severe tone of voice "While I am away you must not visit Pertinax. Take special care not ... old, and lost many of his faculties. One day the servant's constant peregrinations brought him ... "I've had that piece of junk in the house my whole life, and no one was interested in it till now. You ...
of the bed. Her hand rises from under the covers to adjust the ice over her left eye and cheek. ... I shift my weight, and the mattress dips. In response I feel her stiffen-"planking," the ... "Headache. Same one." The same splitting headache, night and day, without a break for fifteen ...
with you about teenage characters. I hope to read those (unincluded) stories one day. On a similar ... I wound up not including some of my longer stories about teachers in this collection, I do think writing ... discovered recently from Twitter that many people find that strange, especially songs with lyrics and not ...
Spring/Summer 1991
during the day. I can't sleep at night either. I don't sleep because I am thinking, but ... spoke so much French that I could feel my cheekbones shifting under my skin, rising higher and higher ... one has gone a terrible silence settles over the campground and the glittering sun breaks wildly over ...
at a very granular level. TQO: What do you value in stories? Sinker: Well, I think that what I value ... around @MayorEmanuel, you had the Bronx Zoo cobra escape and the Twitter account that followed. That ... advising mayoral candidates on their web presence. Just the day before you had Tweeted as @MayorEmanuel: “I ...
but he had not even shifted from his horizontal cloudscape when his aunt had attacked her with the box ... reg' ularly blinked, giving the stoop a green pulse. Iris expected to see some, one's angry ... the cement treads. Blood dripped from her chin and she saw its tiny red stars and asterisks on every ...
