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I don't think anybody trains to be a butler. It just kind of happens.
Kevin Hoffman
And now he's waiting in the car for it's owner to finish shucking corn and then to give him a ride 'cause he'd cracked up his wheels in an unmoored and crazy and bloody chase.
Stanley Jenkins
Things Carl Little Crow and I Did Together To Stay Sober In San Francisco
Each cell of my brain, my body, Carl had explained, has been perforated after years of drinking by a little hole which once I'd filled with alcohol but which now is empty, yearning, yawning, craving, desperate to be filled.
Alan Kaufman
I brush my teeth. They're still gray. I smile anyway.
D. L. Olson
It was a telephone booth future back then; we were all Clark Kents making the undercover bid for a piece of cloud. Nobody stays airborne long.
Rolf Potts
The last guy was wearing a black Speedo swim cap pulled tight over his head, a tight Speedo bathing suit pulled over gray sweat pants, flippers on his feet and a black cape with a sign on it that said, "Help me, I'm getting married."
Oren Shafir
I cram things in my ears: cotton, pencils, deli meat. I stuff my shirt with books so I look jagged, overstuffed, unapproachable. Still, they latch on to me
Richard K. Weems
