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… she was a hurricane.” - John Green, Looking For Alaska
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title: lullabies at night, george michael in the morning
A Softer World: 274
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“He said, “I just want to say one more thing.”
But then he could not think what it could possibly be.”
— Raymond Carver, ‘One More Thing’
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This is beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Over a period of 3 months the photographer stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking before he stopped them.
[via kamikazepaperairplane]
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Six Word Stories
For sale: baby shoes, never used.
—Ernest Hemingway
The original short short story and the inspiration for this website. In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words. They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work.
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1973 Deville (photo: mclgreenville /memorymotel)
The Cadillac in the Attic
by Andrew Hudgins
After the tenant moved out, died, disappeared-
the stories vary: the landlord
walked downstairs, bemused, and told his wife,
“There’s a Cadillac in the attic,”
and there was. An old one, sure, and one
with sloppy paint, bald tires,
and orange rust chewing at the rocker panels,
but still and all, a Cadillac in the attic.
He’d battled transmission, chassis, engine block,
even the huge bench seats,
up the folding stairs, heaved them through the trapdoor,
and rebuilt a Cadillac in the attic.
Why’d he do it? we asked. But we know why.
For the reasons we would do it: for the looks
of astonishment he’d never see but could imagine.
For the joke. A Cadillac in the attic!
And for the meaning, though we aren’t sure what it means.
And of course he did it for pleasure,
the pleasure on his lips of all those short vowels
and three hard clicks: the Cadillac in the attic.
