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  • My parents and I walked to Canada to buy lottery tickets. I wanted Chinese food but Dad said no.
  • brushing my teeth with shampoo, red like blood welling up out of the tube
  • In the theater this woman was reading and talking and totally not paying attention to the movie; why was she there? I asked her if she's please turn off the overhead lights and she said NO. "Can't you see that this is more important?" waving her copy of an Anne Rice novel.
  • oreo crumbs for lunch
  • I was so afraid of him. In the cafe I looked at my receipt and it said DIVORCE DIVORCE DIVORCE all the way to the bottom. I asked the coffeeseller to walk me to my car. She opened the door to the parking lot and there he was. I slunk back against the wall inside, hoping it was too dark for him to have seen me. She called flippantly to him, distracting him. On one level it hurt me to hear him flirting so easily with a stranger, but mostly I was watching her beautiful heavy hair.
  • IT'S THE SMOKEY BANANA SHOW, LA LA LA LA LA LA!