Monday, January 17, 2011

Now she seemed absolutely perfect, and the only puzzle was why she was with him.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

She floated into the room, looking like Cinderella before midnight.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

She tried to calm it down but it just continued to flap and quack.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

She urged him to leave her--to go to London and amuse himself: when he left her she smiled, when he returned she smiled.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

It wasn't going to be easy but she knew it would be worth it.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

He gathered his strength and will, and won the fight.

Friday, September 24, 2010

She missed the way he made her laugh at the silliest things.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Perhaps naively, he hoped fervently that his young son would be spared the rigors and horrors of war.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

But she strove to reason herself and laugh herself out of such imaginings.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

He sank slowly through the dark water, arms out, feet pointed: like a Christ, or a dervish, casting a benediction on the sea.

Friday, January 29, 2010

She had her demons, and she wrestled with them most of her life.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

If his arms hadn't been stuck to the floor, he would have covered his eyes.

Monday, August 03, 2009

She knew what she wanted, and in a world dominated by men, she knew how to get it.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

He mopped with enormous, exaggerated care, and in extreme slow motion.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

She thought the Unnamed God had given her a brain to use, not to ignore as a snare of the devil.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

He called upon his inventor's creativity to find a solution to the dust that aggravated his asthma as he swept up at night.

Monday, April 28, 2008

She dreaded the thought of them walking in and catching her banging her cymbals in the shrine.

Friday, April 18, 2008

But he just knew the Dinobots would get free and ruin everything.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Friday, January 11, 2008

Sunday, October 14, 2007

She did not like women, which would have been easier to deal with had she not been one of them.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Monday, September 03, 2007

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

Thursday, July 12, 2007

He returned the next Sunday with $2.50 in hand and persuaded the pilot to take him aloft.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Like the trees that filtered the polluted air, she filtered the blackness of their woes so that light could exist.

Monday, June 25, 2007

He wished that he had his real gun, which was stashed in some bushes not too far away.

Friday, June 08, 2007

She pushed the boat away from the dock, grabbed the cord on the motor and pulled hard.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

And when he finished the last stroke, the ocean rolled off the paper.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

She experienced transient feelings of unreality and depersonalization, with a sense of disorientation in space.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

An expensive suit hung uneasily on his frame, as if reluctant to get too close; his shirt was a disturbing mauve.

Monday, May 28, 2007

She noted the cost of chocolate syrup and white chocolate syrup at $54.00/gallon and $58.00/gallon.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

He fell through the unguarded opening, striking a three-inch angle iron scaffold support and falling to his death in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

And her hands were restored to her, goodlier than before.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

He licked the mossy floor but it tasted sharp and tangy, like the urine of a disease-ridden rodent and he retched and coughed and spluttered.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Things were revolving obscurely around her, like great dangerous machines in a darkened factory, and she was walking blindly among them...

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Decades later he destroyed his own leg with a shotgun, an act which apparently liberated him from his tormenting obsession.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

She felt as if she knew nothing and could do nothing correctly, and she felt quite alone.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

So, ultimately he lost all the things he had so voraciously clung to.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007

When he washed the ceiling the stucco melted onto the floor.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Even as she debated the answer to herself, she knew it was a moot point.

Friday, March 09, 2007

It reminded him of times when he had felt more alive and in control than God Himself could have felt.

Monday, March 05, 2007

The same voice that she grew to love; She too, in that same hour, died.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

A surfer, he grew curious about hurricanes primarily because of the effect they had on waves.

Friday, March 02, 2007

By the age of six, she had learned that life wasn't anything like the fairy tales.

Friday, February 16, 2007

The dark night caressed him as he skittered like a black widow over girdered steel and mortared brick.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

When he recalled his adversity, he beat the fish head with a wooden hammer.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

She buried the feelings deep within the inner recesses of her heart, and they had remained there.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

After stumbling upon an obscure historical atrocity, he brought it to light as a novel.

Monday, January 29, 2007

She drew a broken heart torn right down the middle in a red jagged line.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Saturday, December 02, 2006

He said several times over coffee, over lunch, over afternoon tea that he felt totally let down and betrayed.

Friday, November 24, 2006

As swift as a gazelle, she sprinted through the weaving rows of corn to the teepees beyond.

Monday, November 20, 2006

If he reached to shake a hand, hordes became so frenzied he was whisked away.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Unable to contain his curiosity, he wrenched open the boxes in the driveway.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

She flicked on the television only to find infomercials invading the networks.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

He was abducted in his vestments by a Calvinist gang and frogmarched to the Market Cross, where he was tied up and pelted with ten thousand eggs for four hours.

Friday, November 03, 2006

She had not yet plumbed the depths of his villainy.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

He snatched a glass of champagne from a waiter and drank it in one gulp, then, as the man moved on, reached for another drink.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

She blinked at the nightstand she found on the sidewalk right outside her home one morning.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

The blood glowed under his skin as he remembered another word.

Monday, October 09, 2006

So, she lifted weights; took voice lessons; got a flat-top haircut; and learned to apply fake stubble to her face.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

He hated error, and therefore, to confute it, he shouldered his way into the very sanctuary of truth.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Then she filtered the whale oil from each lamp into a clean container and disassembled and cleaned each lamp, before putting it back together.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Throughout the 1960s, he wandered the campus of his alma mater in red high-top sneakers, keeping to himself; students teased him and called him the Phantom.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Despite the strange beauty of her movements, he could not understand why she was dancing, naked.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

He might slow enough to drop a missile with a warhead of tailored algae, if a target world could be found.

Monday, May 22, 2006

She went between men and women, seemingly unable to decide which gender she preferred, and was often unfaithful to whomever she was with.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

When old, he wilted and handed out flowers, preached "pure Christianity" and warned against involving yourself too much in anything but a relationship to God.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

He flipped through the book's pages until he found a pair of limbs that matched the woman's.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Then she saw a small peach with a soft neon glow.

Friday, March 17, 2006

One morning, he wrote down all of the passages in the Bible that he felt were the backbone behind Seventh Day Adventist philosophy.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Later, she found his name in a history of the blues.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

At times, he loved her and at times he thought that she was his father's lover.

Friday, February 24, 2006

As soon as she was out of the magpie's sight, she crept along the short corridor which led back to the garden.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

He needled the air with his baton as though poking a rotisserie ham with a thermometer.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

For the next three years, she traveled all over the world with her meditation and yoga teacher, studying Indian philosophy, Sanskrit, yoga, Indian music and cooking.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

Monday, February 13, 2006

She flickered away, pale and mothlike in the gloom.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Despite his youth and delicate health, he retired to a desert; he practiced severe mortification, tempted continually by the demons expending all their efforts to make him abandon this life of total renouncement.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Hopelessly behind schedule, she frittered away much of the remaining time on an unrelated project.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Not thinking too much about things, he returned home only to develop a bad case of curiosity later in the day.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

But when she ordered a chicken Caesar salad in a restaurant one day, it never occurred to her that the small amount of cheese in the dressing would be a problem.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

She took the lamb and drove to Boston, where she stayed with a friend.

Monday, January 16, 2006

He knew they could be petty and egotistical but he also knew they were possessed by a writing spirit and were unable to do any other kind of gainful work.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

She read a great deal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of an interesting future.