Are you sure the cheese you bought from the picturesque farmer down the road is safe?
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Regional carcinoma
At noon we get white rice, boiled chicken leg and instant mashed potatoes made with water.
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She played pretty poison to his Napoleonic airs, two dandies in Manhattan. Off they went to Paris.
From My Mother’s Sleep
The air force man lived alone in a mossy apartment that smelled of the aging miscellany of unkempt fruit.
Miner
Imagine a Polish pope wearing a miner's hardhat. But no, popes don't do that. Can't happen.
Awesome America
To appreciate America’s self-involved gusto — its “great hugeness,” as Jack Kerouac once put it — means accepting ruined attention span.
The Skim
In Rome, irresponsibility and opportunism are interchangeable.
Devils in paradise
Except for Tim Parks and pure travel literature, you'd be surprised at how cliché persists.
Faith and Dewinder
Everyone was happy for Faith because they’d assumed there was no father on the scene.
Da sola
My waiter is concerned by my solitude and hovers over me anxiously.
Sorry
“Sorry” and “worry” are words about honor (and feelings) that the male lexicon dismisses as vulnerable.
Civility
The gut root of the detestation was not Ahmadinejad’s views on Israel, nuclear weapons, gays, or the Holocaust.