Bode and Iris
July 17, 2019[…] changed drastically. He stopped going out at night, even on weekends. He went on with his back- breaking work at the AgriCo-op, ate meals with his family, and otherwise hung out in his basement […]
[…] changed drastically. He stopped going out at night, even on weekends. He went on with his back- breaking work at the AgriCo-op, ate meals with his family, and otherwise hung out in his basement […]
[…] middle of September. He had some prime mustangs, and he needed someone who was extra good at breaking horses to take them. “I need them mustangs broke pronto,” he said, “and I need ’em […]
[…] for five straight nights, frenching until our tongues were raw. They wouldn’t have admitted it for the world, but they wanted it. It might have been my salvation, but I couldn’t take the hint […]
[…] to Paranaque to visit before now, but I’ve been tied up with learning a new area and breaking in a new companion. The branch members don’t know anything about her?” I shook my head. […]
[…] a dream, but when I stepped out of the tent I found that the rest of the world had ceased to exist and that our camp was floating in a sea of nothing. In […]
[…] want. The first time Wayne saw the sea—saw its gray meet the clouded horizon—he realized that the world was vast and he was nothing in it. He felt soothed to sense his own smallness […]
[…] foot drop squarely on what she considered his other great failing. Grandpa drank. While to the larger world, moderate consumption of alcohol was hardly a crime, to my grandmother the mere uncorking of a […]
[…] 60 Strong Draw and bulldoze through the defense and break out into the open for a tie- breaking touchdown and clutch come-from-behind victory at homecoming; first again, we want to be married, fall in […]
[…] were leaving, Mother told me she hoped that Shigeru was now a guardian warrior in the spirit world.” He watched her, waiting. “So?” A stubborn pause. “What did you tell her?” “I didn’t answer, […]
[…] up. On our way back to town, Melba asked, “So what’s Reuben up to these days? The world still against him?” When I told her what he’d said about the churchhouse, she told me, […]