Small Town
Everywhere’s a small town, she said, if you do something that bothers enough people.
Author: Ellen Rockne
Slumber Party
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Spiritual Winter Holidays
I don’t know if I really believe in all the saints, she said, but I pray to them anyway. It makes every night feel more like a slumber party.
Slow Pitch
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Children & Parenting Friends & Neighbors Inspirational Sports & Fitness
How’re you doing? I said & he said we’re undefeated in our appreciation of the game. That’s against incredible odds, he added.
Slow Heat
melting in the slow heat of a summer night, damp with the dark air & thoughts of you
Slow Cure
has some sort of disease where you hallucinate & start to not believe in love, but after a year or two, or even sometimes ten or twenty, it cures itself & all that’s left are a few little red spots that twinge & ache whenever you get too near someone else that has the disease … [Read More]
Slow Change
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Job & Career Personal Growth
prepared for most every eventuality if it doesn’t happen too fast
Sloth
I’m waiting for sloth to come back in style, he said. You may wait a long time, I said. That’s OK, he said, I can use the practice.
Sleeping Man
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Humor & Whimsy
What I’m mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don’t see much future in it.
Slapping Sharks
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Humor & Whimsy
What’s that thing? I said. O, that’s an oar, he said, in case we hit a calm stretch & we decide we need more excitement & also it’s good for slapping sharks.
Six Minutes
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Humor & Whimsy
Time to come out, I told him & he said he’d only been in for 6 minutes & I said that’s not true. You’ve been in the whole day & he shrugged & said all he could remember was the last 6 minutes.