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"I know the best kept secrets in the arts world," I told her proudly.
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She brought over a thick multi-layered sandwich, a huge mug of coffee, a calories rich cream laden yellow cake, and a family size sack of c
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I looked at her as she approached me, invisible to all but me, a big smile on her face, a rose in her left hand, her right fist closed, tight. She approached, slid the rose in
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“You should appeal,” my lawyer screamed, “you will win, the jury was split.”
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I don’t remember falling asleep last night. I woke up to sounds of screaming and running feet, people dispersing in all directions, cars honking… Suddenly I felt frightened, lo
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I pushed the stick into the sixth, at the same time turning the switch in my mind to the comfortable dumb position which would carry me at a stressless 80mph along the habitual
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I felt it coming for some time now, for several years. Lately however it seemed to be nearing till a matter of days was all I expected to have left till it will hit. So I had t
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"...he scooped her in his strong left arm as thick and as muscular as an oak tree in the winter, and his right hand's fingers each as big as a man's arm ripped off her tr
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I was getting all scratchy and itchy and mottled my left side tingling and I didn't blow my nose now in... how long was it?... seven thousa
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I bought a stethoscope and tried to listen to my heart. I was no doctor in medicine and not even a vet, for that matter, but I assumed that
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"I like my french fries with mayonnaise," I said, dipping my first crispy potato stud in the oily yellow stuff and sighing with satisfaction while snapping its soft whitish bel
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I picked up the grain of sand from her hand, pried her fingers open as she refused to part with it, placed it carefully in a vise and with hammer and chisel started working on
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For my fifth school year I moved over to the mixed boys and girls school which was located closer to our street. It was the third year since the mix was allowed, and I didn't m
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Eleven years old, almost on the nose. Summer was rapidly gaining its place of honour in the town, the blue and the green and the lilac's violet the dominant colors in my life.
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I never knew it until it was too late. I was a writer and writers are supposed to be clever, to know better. But I didn't. Proves to you what a lousy writer I have been all alo
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I don't remember any of my circumcision. Better I don't. I carry with me living proof that it was performed sometime in my past, and at times I wonder if the guy didn't do too
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I knocked on the door. Nobody answered. I knew she was in there, where else could she be but there? Her mind insisting obstinately on wasting its fading last hours not in praye
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He was huge, drunk. He pushed her to a corner and hit her. Then again, and again. Then he raped her. Wailing sirens, white corridors, white coats, the raised scythe hesitati
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She looked in the mirror. Past her prime, definitely by time. Not so definitely by looks. The forty plus was kind to her. She never told her real age, not even to herself, cert
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She came in through the bathroom window...
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My dream come true. Romeo, my first major Shakespearean role landed in my lap this morning, nine thirty one sharp. When Jenny L, my midget agent ("don't you dare call me any cr
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It was my lunch break. I was leaning on the thick tree close to the newspapers stand scanning the day's titles, when I felt a strangely pleasant kind of warmth embracing my lef
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I was not sure at all if this was a genetic flaw or simply a matter of education. Some call it training but I prefer education. Though, truth be said, I couldn't see what educa
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