I don't like how my mom packs me homemade bread for lunch. All the German students have nice sliced brown store-bought bread. I throw my lunch away most days. Or I eat it secretly in the bathroom so that no one can see my big Bosnian bread wrapped in aluminum foil.
Susan Messer -- Angstschweiss
"Look at me," Joe said. It was as if he had been waiting, waiting for the son to show up, as if he'd had his opening remark planned all the while. He gestured with his hands, to show his whole situation, not just the leg that was gone but the whole hopeless mess of it.
Janis Hubschman -- Wilderness of Ghosts
My bedroom, after the shared dorm room, feels spacious. The walls are mossy green and the furniture is from Ikea: Ektorp.
Edward Hardy -- Hole in the Sand
More sleep with less disturbing dreams would help, too. He knows the dreams would get better if he could just stop reading Enemy at the Gates, that history of the battle of Stalingrad he found on the beach-house bookshelf. But Martin always has odd vacation dreams.
Clark Knowles -- Each Other's Business
And by Saturday, a whole week without Fellowship in Christ, he was just ill-tempered all over the place.
Baird Harper -- Patient History
The Navy. The Naval Code. Nuke subs. These words he was saying were hers now--more hers than his even--and they meant something. They described who she was and was becoming.
Marjorie Celona -- Gladstone
"We should pretend we don't speak English," says my father, who has been sitting on the porch in his armchair, listening to the whole thing from behind the Help Wanted section of the newspaper.
Sari Rose -- Sweethearts
I have one sister five states away, and Sam has two sisters and one brother, three, four, and six states away. We are kindred seeds--a family of peas or nasturtiums--separated by circumstance: colleges, marriages, jobs, storms, heavy winds.
Pinckney Benedict -- Interview by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum and Alexander Lumans
I don't have to make my living, at least in any direct way, from my writing, and so my writing can be exactly what I want it to be. It can look exactly the way I want it to look. It can look exactly like the inside of my skull.« less