Alice felt the coffee’s steam flow effortlessly into her lungs, filling them with its heat. Her arms’ thin hairs stood up, adjusting to the internal change in temperature, giving her more goose bumps and a sudden need to scratch them off. She placed the full cup gently on the table and scratched her arms though [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘pieces’
July 16, 2009
Speed Stick
Martha picked up a Speed Stick deodorant, took the top off- without minding the pharmacy’s employee stocking inventory behind her- and took a quick whiff. That’s the one she wanted. She smiled and tossed it into the basket. She always liked wearing Men’s deodorant. She never liked those “girly” scents, she liked the cool-just -got-out-of-the-shower [...]
October 7, 2008
a writing prompt
Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinting into a tin bucket.
-From “Thirteen Writing Prompts” by Dan Wiencek in McSweeney’s website.
All the other ones are just as crazy as this one and some even more. You guys should check [...]
July 30, 2008
Reading. Arm. Leaf. Exercise with Gayle.
Think of a verb (ending in -ing), a body part, and an inanimate object.
Start off like this: “After a long day of VERB, s/he discovered that her/his BODY PART was growing INANIMATE OBJECT…”
After a long day of reading, she discovered that her arm was growing a leaf. She wondered how long this one would take [...]
