Rusty Rutherford emerged from his apartment on a Monday morning, exactly one week after he got fired.
To speak about the meaning and value of life may seem more necessary today (1946) than ever; the question is only whether and how this is ‘possible’.
It began with the allocating of luck, our bodies pinballs inside a machine. It was the year of overlapping adolescences, when the girls started to faint and grow tall.
So heavy and unrelenting was the sense of lethargy weighing her down that she felt as if she’d been drugged.
It had taken seven minutes for the first of the fire engines to screech to a halt outside the offices of Morris & Wood, but even by then anyone could have seen it was too late.
HERE ARE SOME BASIC FACTS: Women live longer than men. Women have stronger immune systems.
Some nights, when the wind is up and the power flickers and fails, she tells the child stories, as if this thread of words might be enough to bind them together, to bear them through all that is to come, like a boat, or a leviathan.
The frail old man wakes screaming, tangled in an American flag—the same one that draped the coffin of his slain son, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, three days after his November 22, 1963, assassination.
Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person . . . That’s me, by the way.
Tina, the receptionist, smiles as the automatic glass doors close behind me. ‘Good afternoon, Mrs Sullivan. Lovely weather we’re having.’
There’s a good-looking man standing on the pavement outside the window.
If there's one piece of advice I can give you for your first day at a new school, it's this: avoid sliming your entire classroom.
Bett Quinlan had a weekly ritual. Every Wednesday morning – the day the local newspaper she edited was published – she would walk up one side of the main street of the town of Clare and then down the other.
Atticus Van Tasticus sank deep into his hammock chair as the rhythmic creak and groan of The Grandnan rocked him somewhere near sleep.
The City was built on a sharp mountain that jutted improbably from the sea, and the sea kept trying to claim it back.
A smart man once told me to be careful around gifts, as they’re often more complicated than they first appear.
You have to wonder what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer.