“Your prepper’s pantry will be the building block of your family’s survival system,” the page begins. “Have you read our guide, ‘37 Items to Hoard Before a Crisis’? If so, the list below of essentials to stockpile will likely be familiar to you.” Martha has not read the guide, and she’s no stranger to crisis.
I don't want to be pigeonholed. I don't want the only reason why you'd read my work to be an interest in Florida. James Joyce always wrote about Dublin, but you wouldn't just call him a Dublin writer.
Once he mistook a prostitute for a hitchhiker, and twice he has invited genies into his truck. All three asked him the same thing: “What do you want? More than anything? I can give it to you.”
I chased Pricilla who chased Roberto who chased freedom. We ran against the grain of trick-or-treaters, weaving through capes and hats and brooms and axes. Pricilla had decided to name her dog Roberto after the ballplayer, Roberto Clemente...
She opened her legs for him. There was something there, he thought, something red and purple. But it was tiny and fast, and it disappeared immediately...