The Golden Notebook
I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.
Tag: women
The Shipping News
“If he’d gone on with the others he’d likely have gone into a miserable life. You ask me, Canada...
The Sea, The Sea
‘Every persisting marriage is based on fear,’ said Peregrine. Fear is fundamental, you dig down in...
The Sound and the Fury
The car stopped, started, stopped again. Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s...
In A German Pension
Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding“Fancy Theresa bringing that child with her. It’s her...
Amaryllis Night And Day
I’ve already gone into our conversation about my bird-women. That took place a few months...
Incidences
The Plummeting Old Women A certain old woman, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of a window,...
The House of the Spirits
My wife didn’t miss the refinements she had been accustomed to, and the day the shipment of...
Heroes of the Frontier
“My kids should eat,” Josie said, hoping to focus herself and Sam on practical matters. “Doug’s on...
Ways Of Seeing
A woman is always accompanied, except when quite alone, and perhaps even then, by her own image of...
On Beauty
At the moment of her own greatest emotional commitment she intervened in the most successful...
Slip of the Tongue – Adriel Luis
I’ll tell you bout my ‘ethnic makeup.’
I wear foundation,
not that powdery shit,
I wear the foundation laid by my indigenous people.
It’s that foundation that makes it so that past being globalized,
I can still vocalize with confidence that i know where my roots are.
I wear this foundation not upon my face, but within my soul,
and I take this from my ancestors
because I’ll be damned if I’d ever let an American or European corporation
tell me what my foundation
should look like
