So. The other day I was sitting by the window yet again and the coffee I'd ordered still had not been delivered to me even after probably about fifteen minutes of waiting and perhaps seven sightings of that area's waitress strolling by to collect and dole out the orders of other patrons. She had dark longish hair that she kept pinned up in a bun ( Read more... )

They flitter. It's a bomb on the countertop. But it's just a drink. I try for reserve but my agility must be matching my desire, and together these two giants of trust must be overpowering my reserve, because I drink the bomb too fast, and from behind the bar she watches me, and on her face I catch something I think may be pity. It makes a grainy ( Read more... )

Distances up to five feet were nearly impossible to assuage. When the brakes made high-pitched squeaking noises, Emmett removed his foot from the pad. But then his car would gain too much speed again and he’d have to caress the brakes again, and they’d squeak again and sometimes Emmett would try letting them go ahead and squeak ( Read more... )

On the evening of 2 October, 2001, aged in time to fit the measurements of 11:23pm, I wandered about the oily streets of downtown London, carrying an old diary bound in sackcloth, looking or somebody to notify after finding a small parcel placed upon my chest sometime between when I passed out in the street and the moment when I woke. But that was ( Read more... )

So Nevermind what they say in Heaven, after all. Detectives investigating the murder of a young Austrian boy found two very suspicious articles today in the boy’s footlocker at his grandmother’s house, both of which were immediately commandeered by the acting Lieutenant D. G. Leery O’Keefe as evidence should the murderer be found before dawn. The ( Read more... )

"It's Winter already. Can you believe that, Corrl ( Read more... )

For nearly every letter I received from abroad I have three more to send out, and have suitably begun to stuff the envelopes into shoe boxes and ship them to addresses I procured from the telephone directory.

Hold on to your seat, because the dullness will probably surprise you ( Read more... )

Please note that the following was written two nights ago while I was trapped on the other side of a small wooden door from whence came the greatest inhuman clamor I have ever heard, abounding from the other side as though asked to by the chaos of battle ( Read more... )

Dear Diary ( Read more... )