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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006、 I woke up to SOS by Rihanna playing on my purple digital alarm clock. I got out of bed, grabbed my new toothbwww.onedoor.ccrush with too many bristles, and brushed my crooked teeth. I pulled my fried blonde hair back into a ponytail to wash my face. Wait – that doesn’t make sense. I got my hair cut on Monday, and it was too short to pull back into a ponytail. So that can’t have been Thursday. Why can’t I remember Thursday? Thursday was the most important day of my life! So far. Did I do so bad that I forgot? Was my memory lapse self-preservation? What happened on Thursday?...
The Shark and the Remora
The Shark and the RemoraThere are certain entities in life that would not do well alone. Apples need trees, rivers need riverbanks, Montana needed Rice, and Stockton needed Malone. Joey needed Frank. Or was it that Frank needed Joey? I guess we’ll find out.“We’ve got new neighbors, Frank. It’s a young woman and her ten year old son. She’s very nice. I didn’t meet the boy. He’s in school. Her name is Susan Clark, and her boy’s name is Joey.”“Just the two of them?”“Yes. She’s from here, but she married a guy from South Carolina. They just got porced. I guess he wasn’t much of a father, so she mo...
Dog Biscuit Luck
Kittokatto picked up her glass of lemonade. She gulped it down in a manner so slow and exaggerated, it could pass as a demonstrative video to outline the process of ingestion for middle school biology lectures. Her face puckered like a squeezed stress ball, her eyes shut tight. She shook her head violently and tutted thrice. A second later, her expression went blank as if nothing happened. Needs more salt, Kittokatto thinks as she scrolls through her feed and double taps on posts without them even fully loading. She adjusted her neck in an extremely uncomfortable and greying ostrich pillow ...
1-3-5-17-23-8
1-3-5-17-23-8 "For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”-John Steinbeck, The PearlWally was a simple man, not stupid but not too bright, not ugly but not handsome, not sickly but far from a Yoga instructor, not rich but not poor. He was like most of us.Eight to five. The hours had a way of happening without really being noticed. The sa...