A strange irony: for the first time in so long she felt free. She had acted on her own. As an individual. Asserting herself. But it was precisely because she had acted that she began to fear. She knew there would be consequences, and she knew the consequences were imminent. But could anyone really blame her? Given the circumstances, his past, ( Read more... )

Indeed, it wasn't until I was in grad school that I learned about the sexually deviant practices of certain species. And children should most certainly know about these practices before they align themselves with a particular animal: for instance, little Jamie may not like giraffes as much if she were to know that the male giraffe regularly ( Read more... )

My love, I’ve loved e’er since she passed
To me the syllabi in class:
She, for a moment, turned to me -
Away from chalkboard - so subtly
Displaying want by shoving hard
That stack of papers in my face.

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Act 1 ( Read more... )

When I get up in the morning, I always have the desire to sit down to write. And most of the days I do write something. But then I get telephone calls, and sometimes I have to write an article for The Forward. And once in a while I have to write a review, and I'm being interviewed, and I am all the time interrupted. Somehow I manage to keep on ( Read more... )

As an English major, I've appropriated the dash as a new omnipunctuation tool - that is, if I'm too lazy to start a new sentence or decide what type of punctuation to use, I'll insert it ( Read more... )

MEMORANDUM
Privileged Attorney Work Product

TO: Jennifer Jolly-Ryan, Senior Partner

FROM: #1077, Associate

DATE: October 13, 2006

RE: Hulk Logan: False Imprisonment Charge (File # 02-525) STATEMENT OF THE FACTS ( Read more... )

At Prosco, there was the Nacho Cheese River, running north to south at the eastern edge of the compound. Sometimes, my brothers and I would bathe in the River’s cheese. On very special occasions, we would sacrifice a Buffaloggy to the River God, throwing the butchered animal carcass directly into the River, so as to have beef AND cheese for our ( Read more... )