With you and me, I don’t know what anything means. We’re pushing each other away and yet I don’t seem to be able to let you go.

Apparently, I’m a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.

Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

The beagles are partying under Geiger’s desk.

I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life.”Just be careful, hon,” Rosanna said.”Oh, are...

I’m looking to make a miracle

Fact: Cells are constantly dying and new ones are taking their placeFact: After seven years have gone by, every cell in my body has died and a new one has taken its place.Do the math....

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off – or pimp themselves out – as art....

Acknowledging that my biological imperative may not include the drive to procreate, that I just might be attracted to XX chromosomes instead of XY? That’s so stupid-minor in comparison to the fact that I might...

No, this was Philly. Drunks here boo Santa and get in more trouble than a dog with an Easter basket, and like the dog, they usually end up either sick or dead. Ah yes, another...

I could read between the lines just as well as anyone, especially Riona. Telling the Queen of Faerie to shut the fuck up probably came with consequences.

The smoke burns slightly down my throat and to my lungs. I focus on this, and empty my head, empty the images of Skye’s beautiful face all bruised up. In the end, I can’t even...

All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.– Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH – A Calling)

Is your name even David?’ I asked as I yanked my panties back on.’Is yours Melanie?’ he inquired, buttoning his jeans.’I asked first,’ I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came...

But I wasn’t creeping.

I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I’m glad I didn’t resist.

Do I need to fire the little prat yet?” Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch.

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

He felt torn. He wanted her to feel safe with him, but he also wanted her to feel the sort of heady excitement that any young girl should feel when they fall in love. He...

I’m so stupid,” I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision. “You’re not stupid. You’re just an emotional vampire.

Do not tell me what I think you’re going to or I swear to God, I’m going to fly to Brazil and go all black ops on this guy for cheating on you.

Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I...

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.

You know she needs you. Think for a minute instead of playing the wounded ego card.’’ — Derek

As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere...

Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would do. She started puking on purpose,...

He wasn’t kissing me like I was going to break; he was kissing me like he thought he would break without this kiss.

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking’s not it.

I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it’s more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn’t help when most of the...

uh, yeah, I love…worms” Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.

All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip...

I want him and even if it’s frightening, even if I may not be completely ready for a relationship, I want him. Now… And tomorrow, and all the following days.

I am neither modern nor ancient – just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that his mistakes would serve as warning signs rather than crutches...

Ew! Dad!

Heads swivel. Whispers erupt. As Kalist returns to his desk, bone cane by his side, he indulges, briefly, in horse practice, neighing lightly as he scrolls through a few mental images of busty secretary, Geiger,...

Impressive,” Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. “You should join the theater.””Fuck you.””I owed you that.””Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that.”Really is...

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.

I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’I glare at him, fury battling my instincts.‘Because that kind of love, Jessa,’ Kit continues, ‘doesn’t just disappear. It doesn’t just fade....

… she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

Poetry is not an art, it’s a symptom.