Absorb
You twist the knob of your hard water stained, scum-lined, hairy little shower in your half a studio apartment, hardly a foot removed from the paltry little hot plate you call a kitchen – and lo! I am...
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Margot, Well, here I am. Stuck once more on the tip of the dry season, wasting time trying t’ get the government inspectors t’ come up here and tell me the land’s no good. I know the land’s no good,...
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Dear Nathaniel, Having read your letter over many times and, quite frankly, basking in your anguish, I think I am now ready to answer you – having curtailed my fits of hysteria, too (you should have...
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Dear Thursday, What do you hope to achieve? Friday and I have been together forever. Do you really think this is all it will take to drive a wedge between us? I guarantee you that no one will accept...
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Dear Sir, I regret to trouble you with an unexpected letter. I know that you are an important man and I must emphasize from the start that I do not wish to waste your time. What I have to offer your...
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Jim, Hot, you say! Is that your countrified way of exaggerating? Don’t you dare tell me you know from hot, farmboy, until you’ve spent a weekend in a thin wood tenement when the radiator’s broken down....
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Daria, I have loved you so long to no purpose I can’t really remember what it’s like not to be pathetically entrenched in you. You were, at the outset, a cute photograph in the hand of a friend. You...
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Claire, If you are reading this, please forgive me. I am sorry that I could not outlive you and keep this from you. I am sorry that I have left you alone, and left this here for you to discover. If the...
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Margot, Well, here we are. Of course the bus broke down somewhere in East Jesus, the back boondocks of what papa used to call yonder. I oughta save up for some kind of motor of my own, get you and your...
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Jim, Oh I sea. And after Grover’s Mill I’m sure you’ll happen by a donkey, a duck and a cow looking to make their fortune in the city. I’ve heard such things happen “out yonder.” You’ve been gone so...
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