Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

My grandpa looks good in booty shorts. It’s too damn bad he’s dead and can’t twerk it for the small crowd that’s gathered in the cemetery.

For now. But if I ever decide you’re useless, you are a dead man.”To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service.”Bravo.” Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with...

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it’s the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.

When he’s late for dinner, I know he’s either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it’s the street.

The dead don’t stay dead in this town! Haunted Richmond II-Pamela K. Kinney

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not...

With ‘Elect the Dead,’ I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I’ve always wanted to make.

I don’t think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there’s only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It’s as if he’s speaking the words again. “Oh,...