一年后，我开始领零用钱──我还记得是一个月一百日圆。
隔着花布双珠扣零钱包，我紧紧握着里面的人生第一笔可以自由花费的钱，去买了波萝面包。跑下前往商店街的斜坡时，我还感觉自己的脚就像浮在离地五公分的空中似地。…
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Saturday, December 24, 2016
深夜的兵卫碗面
学生时代，我总会在考试之前熬夜念书，至今还无法脱离这个习惯；世人一陷入沉睡，我的写作就会进入佳境。结果过了午夜时分，我情绪高昂，就好像花朵在脑中绽放一样，同时也出现一阵猛烈的饥饿感。…
Sunday, December 18, 2016
父亲和舟和的地瓜羊羹
在父亲罕见地提早回家的日子，伴手礼就不是寿司了。父亲并没有立刻将伴手礼拿出来，而且莫名其妙地抿著嘴巴，一脸不悅地脱下大衣，掛上衣架，搞得茶室的气氛很不安，接着才装模作样地将一个蓝色浪花图案的纸包放在矮桌正中央。…
Saturday, December 17, 2016
沉溺在长崎蜂蜜蛋糕中
一面偷偷听着母亲和客人的谈话，我一面发出“咚、咚”的声音走上二楼，仔细端详著手中的长崎蜂蜜蛋糕。挤满了绵密细致小洞的蛋黄色海绵、上下夹着长崎蜂蜜蛋糕的咖啡色──我好喜欢这个黄色和咖啡色的“双色系”。…
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Saturday, December 10, 2016
There was Room Enough to be Anyone
So Colin drove past the Hardee's and out onto the interstate headed north. As the staggered lines rushed past him, he thought about the space between what we remember and what happened, the space between what we predict and what will happen.…
Sunday, December 4, 2016
A Natural Born Storyteller
"Did I tell you I dumped one of the Katherines?"
"You what? No."
"I did, apparently. Katherine the Third. I just completely misremembered it. I mean, I always assumed that all the things I did remember were true ."
"Huh."
…
Saturday, December 3, 2016
I'm Full of Shit
"Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside — well, except K-19. But I always…
Sunday, November 27, 2016
But You Can Never Love People As Much As You Can Miss Them
He could hear her eyes rolling as she said, "You are probably the only person I've ever known who wants to be a Siamese twin."
"Conjoined twin," Colin corrected. "Did you know that there is a word for a person who is not a conjoined twin?"…
Like Strawwwwwberry Wine
They left after interviewing Katherine Layne. They drove around in Satan‘s Hearse for a while, getting good and lost with the windows rolled down, driving down a two-lane highway toward absolutely nothing. They listened to a country radio station…
Saturday, November 26, 2016
It Tasted A Little Like Lemonade, Except Somehow More Grown-up
"Y'all want some tea?" Starnes asked. Without waiting for an answer, he stood up and walked into the kitchen.
At once sweet and bitter, it tasted a little like lemonade, except somehow more grown-up. Colin loved it — it was everything he'd…
Caffeinated Stomach Bile
He called the future Katherine XIX that Friday after school and asked her out for coffee the next day, and she said yes. It was the same coffee shop where they'd had their first two meetings — perfectly pleasant events filled with so much sexual…
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Not Without Her Heart
... ...
It might never have occurred to the girl what to do had she not met someone smaller and still curious about the world.
There was a time when the girl would have know how to answer her.
But not now. Not without her heart.…
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Humphrey's Family
Here is Baby Jack, Humphrey's little brother.
Baby Jack's favourite toy is Dog.
Dog used to bark but the string broke.
Baby Jack always talks baby talk.
He dribbles quite a lot too ...
Baby Jack likes joining in…
Sunday, November 13, 2016
One Fine Day
... ...
So the fox found a peddler and said, "There is a pretty maiden down the road and if you give me one blue bead for her she'll be pleased with you and pleased with me. Then she'll give me her jug so I can fetch some water to give…
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Me Too
I started to cry.
'Pingu sad,' said my little brother.
And I explained that Pingu was sad because his mother and father had been run over by a terrible red truck which came slidding over the ice. The Pingu and his little sister couldn't…
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Nothing More Than an Ordinary Part of Life
The Valium helped, but it still seemed to be an eternity before they arrived in Goa and the bus ride came to an end. Lor realized that the fact that she was in such psychological distress from a simple nine hours of discomfort —— not even pain,…
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Right Thing to Do
“I hate this fucking sentiment that you’re expressing. It’s a common one. The sacred child who must be cared for no matter what, no matter what the cost. You know, if this were a hundred years ago, Zach would have been left out in the woods.…
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Nomadic Thing
“Is a tree a nomad?” she asked, almost breathless with the beauty of this concept.
“I think so. Yeah, I think everything that exists would be a nomad, kind of. I don’t know. I haven’t read Leibniz in years.”
Lorrie just stared at…
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Pea-Proof Mattresses!
Pea-Proof Mattresses!
Princess Mattresses are truly fit for royalty! Don't lose another second of sleep to pesky peas placed precisely under your posterior!
Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep
by Robin Newman, illustrated by Chris…
Hildie and Clawdia
There's a little - known secret about Hildie Bitterpickles. She needs her sleep.
Every night brushes her teeth, puts away her spell book, and goes to bed with her cat, Clawdia.
Until the night when Hildie's quiet neighborhood changed.…
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Shadows of Ourselves
"D'you think people leave impressions of themselves in a place?" I asked.
"After they've died, you mean?"
I scored a cross in a square. "No, after they've been somewhere." I told him about the flashback images of my childhood. "It…
Saturday, October 1, 2016
It's Saturday
"On Saturday, breakfast is much better."
"Slurp!"
"Glug! Glug!"
"See - it's the same but it tastes so much better."
"And that's because it's SATURDAY!"
The Big Wet Balloon, P8
by Liniers
ISBN 978-1-935179-32-0
…
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Indonesian Archipelago
"Taking the piss out of him wasn't such a good idea, was it?" I said.
"He would've done it anyway. Guys like that, they're looking for a fight —— and I just happened to be there, wearing the wrong skin colour and a silly hat."
"Yeah,…
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Stowaway Time
"You don't like escapism?" I said, trying not to laugh.
"No. I don't."
"So what we have been doing for the last ten days?"
"This isn't an escape from reality," Uman said. "This is our reality."
Was it? I guessed it was,…
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Lives as the River Does
"Lives as the river does, never standing still or turning back but forever flowing onwards. If you should reach a dessert, transform yourself into cloud and float across it, then fall as rain on the other side to become a river once more."…
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Magical
I woke early. Phoneless, I had no idea what time it was, but when I unzipped the flap carefully, so as not to wake Uman, and poked my head out, a smoky just-after-dawn light seeped through the woods, turning the trees into charcoal sketches.…
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Strength of Character
"You don't like me very much, do you?"
Mum chips in. "Can you blame her, the way you're acting? You might think you're all grown up now, but——" Uman asked.
"Look, we're all getting a bit tired and tetchy," R.I. Ryan says. "Shall we…
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Rules
We talked about rules; how you decided which ones to obey and which to break. It was like a class discussion in Citizenship ... only, it was nothing like a class discussion in Citizenship.
"Are you a rule breaker?" Uman asked.
"In…
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Started with an Appearance
Where is he? It's all I can think about. Every minute since it ended.
D.I. Ryan wants to hear it from the beginning. The first of the fifteen days, I presume she means; the day I went missing. It started a couple of weeks before then, though.…
Sunday, August 28, 2016
The Offering for A Good Year of Great Harvest
The sun rose, and the king stood by the altar. He wore fine clothing and a golden crown. He really did look like the king of all the Incas. The king gave the offering for a good year of great harvest. "Inca forever!" he said. His voice was…
Mum's Awana
Mum was siting at her awana. Next to it were dyed alpaca threads. Soon the threads would be changed into cloth for warm clothing.
Yana asked. "Mum, can I help? I want to learn how to weave."
"You'll learn when you are older," said…
She Felt Grumpy and Grumbled to Herself
With his poncho thrown on the floor, Yana's brother Usco was shearing a young alpaca.
"Usco, I have some corn for you. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"You can help by staying still," said Usco to his sister.
Yana felt grumpy.…
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