amok literature

2011-12-19T22:49:00.000-05:00

Cutting with the dull side of the knife.

2011-12-13T22:08:00.001-05:00

Shootout at the circus.

2011-06-03T14:54:00.002-04:00

He was laughing, the grin on his face stretched as far as his muscles could possibly take it. But his eyes, his eyes were not the eyes of someone who was amused.

2011-05-11T16:42:00.000-04:00

I remember the first time I took Dean to the old wooden dock at the end of Oak Street. We were seniors in High School and he had just started to call upon Ms Laurel Frank. It was the first really warm day of spring and I decided to show him how to haul the haddock nets out of the water. My brother Seymore had left two nets down near the dock when he left for Easton the previous fall.

2011-04-13T15:15:00.001-04:00

Victorian Profanity

2011-03-28T21:53:00.001-04:00

I did not come here for the sake of vanity.

2011-03-17T11:11:00.001-04:00

Did he eat the Blarney Stone?

2011-03-17T11:02:00.002-04:00

And they'll say "Hey, look at the guy with the wrinkled sweater, let's not give him any of our gold."

2010-11-02T15:58:00.002-04:00

When I go I will leave some loose ends, some things undone. I suspect I am not in the majority for expecting this, but is this prospect so awful?

2010-10-04T13:44:00.003-04:00

In our Western Desert, Lance Corporal Peterson was the end all, our only source of rational sanity and our only chance for survival.

2010-08-11T14:46:00.002-04:00

Roy stood up abruptly with a hard look on his face.

"You just pissed in the soup. STOP PISSING IN THE GODDAMN SOUP!"

2010-08-02T18:22:00.000-04:00

Food is the social currency.

2010-06-03T19:42:00.002-04:00

So there I was in the bookstore when this guy wearing a red purse pulls a large medicine bottle and a sock out of the purse. Oh wait, that was me.

2010-01-27T10:10:00.001-05:00

Gridley pulled a flask out of his pocket.

2010-01-15T15:36:00.000-05:00

The chef was arthritic, with one bad eye and one really bad eye.

2009-12-10T12:50:00.000-05:00

50 yards of awesomeness.

2009-11-25T10:33:00.000-05:00

"If they know that..." Roger grasped for words. "That means - they can see us. How can they see us?"

2009-07-06T11:19:00.000-04:00

Ah, how high is the ecstasy of a new discovery.

2009-05-22T14:48:00.000-04:00

Walter insisted that he was able to play the banjo despite having never touched one.

2009-05-07T15:23:00.001-04:00

Morris pulled violently on the pole while the small boat pitched in the open sea. His line snagged in the reel and then broke as the beastly fish pulled him overboard.

2009-04-13T15:11:00.001-04:00

"You're no gentleman!"

He stood, his hands no longer shackled to the oar. The revolt on the galley began this way.

2009-04-09T09:24:00.001-04:00

The laughter of the Kookaburra was infectious.

2009-01-31T00:58:00.001-05:00

The first death is in the wanting.
The second death is in the having.
The third death is in the losing.

2008-10-29T17:53:00.000-04:00

What do you think, Dr. Frankenham-Head?

2008-09-22T01:52:00.000-04:00

"Will there be food?"

"Its a wake, not a buffet."

2008-07-30T15:46:00.001-04:00

"That's real smutty" Rudolph exclaimed in the most condescending way he could.

2008-04-24T15:45:00.001-04:00

Ice cream truck in doppler effect.

2008-04-10T14:59:00.001-04:00

Marlon Brando stars in: Your Lying!

2008-02-28T22:59:00.000-05:00

...playing tequila-shot jenga with Buckminster Fuller.

2008-01-11T09:47:00.000-05:00

Written on the wall in brown marker, it said plainly;

"Hector has no friends."

2008-01-04T18:25:00.001-05:00

For some reason I find the thesaurus hilarious lately.

2007-11-08T21:48:00.001-05:00

As a clown, I continue to amuse myself.

2007-11-03T15:00:00.001-04:00

You're my name is Neal's...

2007-10-25T19:47:00.001-04:00

"Sooner or later, we all end up in there."

2007-10-04T20:14:00.000-04:00

You've lost your gorilla powers.

2007-09-26T18:45:00.001-04:00

You can't spell 'gasoline' without 'asol'.

2007-09-03T13:36:00.001-04:00

The sun will kill us all!

2007-06-25T18:47:00.000-04:00

Your spelling errors will be held against you.

2007-06-21T20:49:00.002-04:00

The worst feeling in the world is to want to go home when you are already there.

2007-06-13T22:09:00.000-04:00

We call him 'Flap Jacks' because he likes to roll around in syrup.

2007-04-30T18:10:00.001-04:00

My child is an honor student at The Center of The Earth

2007-04-07T19:27:00.000-04:00

"Why do you mock everything that I consider a vegetable?"

2007-03-29T08:12:00.001-04:00

BEER and POLITICS

2007-03-12T16:20:00.000-04:00

I used to have a pantheon of heroes, but....

2007-03-05T09:29:00.001-05:00

Walter and Miranda awoke before dawn.

"The moon is watching us."

2007-02-22T15:45:00.000-05:00

You pulled a rabbit's ears.

2007-02-08T11:00:00.000-05:00

Overwrought with nostalgia.

2007-01-19T09:46:00.000-05:00

Parmesan trees.

2007-01-01T23:27:00.000-05:00

Whiskey!

2006-12-21T10:52:00.000-05:00

Escalator panhandler.

2006-12-16T23:33:00.000-05:00

2006: The year that would not stop sucking.

2006-11-20T17:15:00.000-05:00

Margarine of error.

2006-11-16T16:22:00.000-05:00

Flattery got me nowhere
I have nothing but contempt

2006-11-13T22:50:00.000-05:00

No one ever pushed me.

2006-10-25T19:17:00.000-04:00

"I don't have any god damn future endeavors"

2006-09-11T22:30:00.000-04:00

"Even my pretend friends are boring."

2006-09-07T17:33:00.000-04:00

"Good afternoon, Commodore."

2006-06-23T17:53:00.000-04:00

At the foot of the mountain, but high on a hill,

2006-05-29T19:51:00.000-04:00

He has fallen victim to the ever present, ever vigilant, and most destructive human tendancy to categorize and compartmentalize...

2006-05-17T07:23:00.000-04:00

The pot called the kettle black on almost every count.

2006-03-10T13:56:00.000-05:00

Morris and Walter stared blankly as the truck rolled down the hill. Walter realized he should have put the brake on. As the old pickup wrapped around an oak tree, Morris decided it was time to give up on motorized transportation.

2006-03-08T20:43:00.000-05:00

Morris watched as the embers of the fire spiraled up into the night sky.

"Seriously, who burns books. Even the bad ones don't deserve that."

2006-02-26T18:23:00.000-05:00

Miranda watched the bush closely as robin closed in on its prey. The unsuspecting worm was snatched up in an instant, and the robin fluttered away into the spring time air.

2006-02-15T09:50:00.000-05:00

As Miranda pondered her favorite high school teachers, she realized she did not have enough to warrant making a list.

2006-02-10T09:39:00.000-05:00

"Sometimes it happens - we find out that our heroes are fallible. Its part of life."

2006-02-08T11:53:00.000-05:00

"I want you to spend some time thinking very carefully about what you are going to do next," Morris explained "because what you do from now on is going to change your life and the lives of everyone around you."

Walter looked intently at the trees swaying in the breeze.

2006-02-07T01:17:00.000-05:00

"I'm a culinary failure! Cooking is just another thing I can't do." Gina bandaged Walter's hand and leg as he sobbed and moaned. Miranda looked down at her feet in uncomfortable silence.

2006-02-06T15:46:00.000-05:00

Marco put his head on Gina's shoulder.

"I am you're brother," he said quietly.

"Its true," Gina replied, "It has taken me sixteen years to find our parents."

2006-02-06T01:10:00.000-05:00

Walter pulled the tragic result of his hard work out of the oven. As the pan came to rest on the hole in his oven mit, he shrieked. Walter jerked his arm, and in an instant, the burnt loaf shattered the kitchen window.

2006-01-29T19:50:00.000-05:00

Morris stooped down to look beneath the truck. Oil poured out of the crank case like an animal relieving itself. From here, they would have to walk.

2006-01-28T13:19:00.000-05:00

Walter stopped running as he passed the statue. Out of breath, he turned around and rested his hands on his knees. Miranda arrived, panting.

"I win," Walter announced. Miranda kicked him the crotch.

2006-01-27T00:40:00.000-05:00

Walter grimaced at the proposition. He pondered it only briefly before leaving and slamming the kitchen door in disgust.

2006-01-24T13:03:00.000-05:00

It was not the end. Miranda arrived to the enterance of a large, green tunnel. The floors were covered in glossy, olive tile and the walls and ceiling were a similar color. It was dim, despite the long blue fluorescent lights. At the end the was an ordinary door, complete with knob on the left side.

2006-01-23T18:53:00.000-05:00

Shoes were the only thing left of Miranda after the grenade went off.