They lay sideways across her mama’s big bed and listened to the sound of her brother mowing the grass outside. “This is awfully risky” she said. “What if he stops and come in for a drink of water or something and catches us?”“Taking risk is fun” he said. “Besides, if he does stop, we’ll have time.”“Bullshit. If he stops we’re caught. Or mama could come home early, too.”“Just relax and enjoy the moment” he r...

I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions. -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words. He had a list of words. Weird words, like auric and bumbledom and chimera. Words like cachinnation and doryphore and epicaricacy. He looked down the list an...

 HE: (while sprawled across coach internet surfing with his laptop) Ha! Now get this! It says here that the experts are sayin’ that ‘sex begins at forty!’ They even have an interview with some woman who says when she was in her twenties she would just lie there and mentally go down the isles grocery shopping while her husband humped away, but now in her forties with her second husband she’s all about it. Now ain’t that some shit? SHE: (curled up under a bl...

 ROUND HOLE: Ever notice how you never fit it? SQUARE PEG: Heh, yeah. But it damn sure ain’t for lack a tryin’. ROUND HOLE: Ain’t that the truth! Here you are day in and day out, but you’d a thunk by know… SQUARE PEG: Naaaah, it’s an old story RH. Us’n Square Pegs are used to it. If ya don’t fit, then ya just don’t fit. It’s really quite that simple. ROUND HOLE: But…sometimes I get so bored with all the ...

 Leviathan. That was a good word to describe how he imagined the ship to be –a one big huge-ass giant leviathan. He was lying on his bunk in that twilight between wakefulness and sleep and for some reason he was dreaming that he was floating outside the big, hulking beast of a ship and watching her drift along to God-knows-where in all the vast, deep dark emptiness. Emptiness. Vast and deep and dark. BEEP-BEEP-BEEP! His alarm sounded. He sighed deeply and muttered an old exp...

 JIM: as usual, nothing on. (tosses remote down on bar after clicking off the TV) Ya know one a these days, the way things are goin’ in all this computer/electronic hoo-ha world we're livin' in, I can foresee you bein’ able to buy a little black box that’ll have every TV show and movie ever made on it and make the TV obsolete. ED: (thumps cigarette ash into ashtray) yeah, I can see that comin' too. And the same thing with music –every single song ever ...