Earlier today this girl came in and ordered a cherry soda. She wore a bright white t-shirt and had thick red hair that swung like pendulums past her cheeks, cords of crimson curls. She sat outside with her dad in the evening ( Read more... )

Clong.

-T

I have been thinking lately of the recent prevalence, in my life, of close calls ( Read more... )

SLEATER-KINNEY CALLS IT QUITS

"After eleven years as a band, Sleater-Kinney have decided to go on indefinite hiatus."

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/SleaterKinney_Say_Goodbye

This is the saddest thing to happen to women since men.

here is the plan. It is not in any way final. I appreciate and look forward to reading any and all comments you may supply ( Read more... )

What is today? Today is beautiful. Alex has braved the ten-thousand foot terrors of airplane travel just to come home and see our shining faces. Tonight, we will roll ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went swimming in Loch Raven again, this time alone. I went for the exercise. A couple watched me emerge from the lake, stinking and dripping, while they played with their kids.

"You're not human!" the man yelled at me.

"What?"

"I said you're not human! We've been watching you since you went in!"

"Oh, thanks."

"What happened to your dog?"

I ( Read more... )

So, as part and parcel of my internship with a literary magazine, I peruse a pile of submissions, marking the crap with a big black X. This is not an easy job. On average we receive a staggering amount of mail; in two days, we may receive a hundred different envelopes, all of them manila ( Read more... )

Dear Dean Gabbard,

I hereby withdraw as a student from Cornell. I am sorry things did not work out.

My current mailing address is:

10 Ruxton Hill Road
Towson, MD 21204

Thank you for all your help.

Sincerely,
Thomas Beckwith

Sometimes I wonder if, several years ago, an old man foresaw a prophecy pertaining to my sleep habits. I imagine a roughly hewn mortar and a pestle, a dash of fragrant powders, a mystical movement of the hands. He is chanting. Around him sit the remnants of a once-powerful cannibalistic cult ( Read more... )