
Civility
The gut root of the detestation was not Ahmadinejad’s views on Israel, nuclear weapons, gays, or the Holocaust.

My dollar’s lifetime
The dollar traded at 625 to the lire. The number rarely changed in the 1960s.

On Chesil Beach
A postwar one-night (marriage) stand goes deeply awry, but that's really the least of it.

Worms
I bought syringes from the local pharmacy and pumped poison into the wood-wounds.

Phosphorus and Hesperus
Rory tells Dee stories about the times young Catafalque visited his mother-to-be, Blaze. They whispered in flames.

The Tyger
Carmen ate the prettiest rose in the world and then just then the great change of heaven occurred.

Death-by-disco
“Nicole, I’m sorry,” she said, the baby wailing. "I have to go breast-feed the baby.”

One Miracle Among Many
Joe Colicchio: "My Aunt Millie and Leslie Stephanik were best friends — Nasty and Nastier..."

Banishing The Magic
Moai was contended since his birth in Vitorchiano, a medieval town in Tuscia, a rugged stretch of Lazio.
Love ’em & leave ’em
I am learning to be that marvel who knows to bug out of a dinner party in style.

Paracetamol baby
Until recently you couldn’t even buy an aspirin without going to a "farmacia."