If It Bleeds

Like many people who struggle with insecurity, she’s a compulsive planner-aheader, and consequently almost always early.

Black as the devil’s riding boots.

oing that is good. It’s like disinfecting a wound that has begun to show some mi

will be crossing every t and dotting every i i

flies here, there, and everywhere. It flew into Brady Hartsfield’s head. It flew into the head of the guy who shot all those people in Las Vegas. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, they got the bird. Hitler. Pol Pot. It flies into their heads, and when the wetwork’s done, it flies away again. I’d like to catch that bird.”

think it’s a bird,” Jerome says. “A big bird, all frowsy and frosty gray. It

people looking forward to the weekend, which is always better than the weekend itself

death takes the best of us and death takes the rest of us.”

He’s a good man, but sometimes he drinks a little too much. Then he rides his hobby horses.

Creativity often seemed to run on its own clean circuit, regardless of the body’s ills.