the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

Beowulf may have killed Grendel and Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

of course, I may die in the next ten min… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about is that my editor—publisher might retire even though he is ten years younger than

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...

I have a saying, “the tough ones always… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

Hugo Wolf went mad while eating an onio… and writing his 253rd song; it was rainy April and the worms came out of the grou… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled his m… with his ink, and his blood fell out to…

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind