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Hell", Shane spit in disgust. "I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her" He tossed her the bat.


Rachel Caine


#monica #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #violence-towards-women #violence

I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. The farmers don't want it, he explained. The nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that spraying the crops would kill them. He didn't say that feedlot wastes also contain heavy metals and hormone residues, persistent chemicals that end up in waterways downstream, where scientists have found fish and amphibians exhibiting abnormal sex characteristics.


Michael Pollan


#factory-farming #feedlots #manure #pollution #nature

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.


George Carlin


#bookstores #self-help #purpose

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.


Amy Hempel


#short-story #short-story

- Excuse me gentlemen, I know it is a little disturbing, because tomorrow is the end of the world, and that man is dead, but still…he hadn’t paid. Can we arrange the matter somehow? – she looks the gathered with endless anxiously and still a little angry face.


Alexandar Tomov


#short-story

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.


John Cheever


#prose #short-stories #intelligence

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?


T.C. Boyle


#short-story #with-out-a-hero #short-story

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.


Christopher Hitchens


#christopher-hitchens #humour #literature #writing #write

You can fix anything but a blank page.


Nora Roberts


#storytelling #writing #write

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.


Edgar Allan Poe


#writing #short-story






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