“Pete sat across the table, flopped his hat in the chair beside, and took a long drink of beer. Ray sipped at his and adjusted the ball cap on his head. Cold beer was one of the things he’d dreamed about these past two years, that and firm breasts, smooth buttocks, thick steaks and clamContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Getting and the Anticipating (Brad Smith)”
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RKS Literature: Two Men in a Titty Bar: “Girl Last Seen” (Nina Laurin)
“The two of them seem to be together, except that he’s dressed a lot nicer than his buddy, who’s in a weathered hockey jersey that hangs off his skinny shoulders like a rag. No, this one has a jacket. A nice jacket. Where would I know someone who has a jacket this nice? Must beContinue reading “RKS Literature: Two Men in a Titty Bar: “Girl Last Seen” (Nina Laurin)”
RKS Literature: Writing is Like Dreaming (Wally Lamb)
“He followed me into the bathroom, peeling a banana. “Depressing, I was cranking up on a new poem when some dipshit called, trying to sell us a storage freezer. Writing is a lot like dreaming, you know? There’s a subconscious connection, you know. Once someone intrudes, it’s like trying to go back to sleep toContinue reading “RKS Literature: Writing is Like Dreaming (Wally Lamb)”
RKS Literature: Too Much Pineapple Juice and Ashley’s Stinky (Wally Lamb)
“Ashley pulled at her mother’s pant leg and Paula bent down to hear the secret. “Well, Ashley, maybe next time you’ll listen to Mommy about drinking too much pineapple juice. Come on we’ll just have to tinkle behind the car.” “But I don’t have to tinkle. I have to make a stinky.” Wally Lamb, “She’sContinue reading “RKS Literature: Too Much Pineapple Juice and Ashley’s Stinky (Wally Lamb)”
“OPERATION 51st STATE: Managing Canadian Opposition to Canada’s Annexation by the United States of America: Lotteries, Advertising Campaigns and Promotion of Citizenship Awards”
The Senior Working Group (SWG) discussed how best to manage Canadian’s opposition to the annexation of Canada as the 51st state of the United States of America. The SWG has many recommendations which we will lay out in separate sections of this document. It is the view of the SWG Canadian “gun legislation” has effectivelyContinue reading ““OPERATION 51st STATE: Managing Canadian Opposition to Canada’s Annexation by the United States of America: Lotteries, Advertising Campaigns and Promotion of Citizenship Awards””
RKS Literature: Clean Fat and Skinny Sloppy (Wally Lamb)
“Fat slob this, fat slob that. You hear that all the time. You’re like me: a clean fat. I could tell that right off. Why do you think I let you stay here?….I see it all the time. The dirtiest, sloppiest girls are the skinny ones. Year after year, the same thing. You can tellContinue reading “RKS Literature: Clean Fat and Skinny Sloppy (Wally Lamb)”
RKS Literature: Somewhat of a Downward Slide in Life (Wally Lamb)
“Things had gone sharply downhill from the Port Authority bus terminal in New York when a hunchbacked old man had hobbled down the entire aisle, coming to rest with a sigh on the backseat next to me. From New York to Philadelphia, I sat yanking at Ma’s trench coat around me as he blew hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Somewhat of a Downward Slide in Life (Wally Lamb)”
RKS Literature: AN AMERICAN NON DP Feels Like a DP Living With Her Granny (Wally Lamb)
“Displaced persons. People we took in from Europe after the war. You’d think they’d be grateful. Wouldn’t you?” I understood why they weren’t. A displaced person myself, I was not so much grateful to Grandma for her charity as disgusted by her liver spots and quiet belches, the way she could reach into her mouthContinue reading “RKS Literature: AN AMERICAN NON DP Feels Like a DP Living With Her Granny (Wally Lamb)”
RKS Literature: Trying to Cope with a Parental Split (Wally Lamb)
“Daddy kept sneaking nervous peeks at me and at the rearview mirror. Behind us, the U-Haul trailer wobbled and swayed from side to side. In silence I waited impatiently for the tragic highway accident that would paralyze me but wrench both my parents back to their senses. I pictured the three of us back homeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Trying to Cope with a Parental Split (Wally Lamb)”
RKS Literature: How Exactly are Babies Born? (Wally Lamb)
“My information about sex was a mosaic of eavesdropping, process of elimination and filling in the blanks. In third grade I heard the term “sleeping together” and spent time worrying that accidental fatigue could make an unwanted child-that male and female strangers sharing a seat together on an overnight train might innocently doze off andContinue reading “RKS Literature: How Exactly are Babies Born? (Wally Lamb)”
