The five-gallon bucket of eggshell white comes with the house. There's linoleum but there's not wallpaper, so she's able to begin immediately covering the sponge-painted periwinkle walls of the entryway. It's hot and empty, the window boxes humming low and the fans making a gentle occasional whap when they get too far out of orbit and have to reset themselves.

In the Materials section on Craigslist there's a ship's chain...

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
David Bowie - Changes

I was born the week before John Lennon was shot on his doorstep, and just after my country elected a movie star as President. Punk music was born and immediately died the year I was born. The heaviest heartbeat in rock and roll stopped, and we were

Intruso

Chapter Fifteen

The day Kalila died was perfect, right up 'til they found her dead in her stall.

--I like you! Bethany said to him that hot August morning after he'd been working with the horse for about an hour. This was convenient, because Gabilan liked Bethany too. A lot. She had brought a glass of lemonade down to the paddock.

--Hey! she said, smiling. Such beautiful teeth. Gotta take a break for a minute. Here. ...

When you think of Hyundai, you think economy and value; the words "speed" and "handling" rarely come to mind. Hyundai is trying, rather desperately, to change this. In the last few years the Korean car company has stepped up its efforts at developing a true drivers car, and they've been getting...kinda-sorta close. The Tiburon, which was Hyundai's first attempt at a sports car, slowly got bigger and better as time progressed. Regardless, the end product was still a 2008 model that