Every city has such a barrier, tangible or intangible. To preserve the respect of the fallen and the sensitivity of the others.

this is the opposite of a slave auction.

Worse than the noise was how every addiction was sold curbside. You didn’t even need to leave your car. You didn’t even have to park.

To feel anything, anymore, required ever-increasing amounts of words. Great landfills and airlifts of words. It took a mountain of talk to achieve even the tiniest insight.

Monkey promised to deliver a minimum 14 percent share in the highly competitive mid-level imported dairy solids market, and Monkey further promised that such success would last at least seven weeks, positioning this new cheese before the forthcoming holiday entertainment season. In exchange, Hamster granted that Llewellyn Foods would reward Monkey

Miss Scott’s hair was so bouncy and her cheeks so bright that the three best friends could only adore her with full-moon eyes.

“Flamingo is a … what’s the word?” She made a fist and knocked her knuckles lightly on her forehead. Finally, she snapped her fingers and said, “A transvestite!”

drinking coffee to stay awake under fluorescent lights in strategy meetings

Felix M——gave a warm thought to his wife, asleep, her body poured out of milk.