it’s been configured and reconfigured over the years since into a drywall palimpsest

the fastmouthed soubrette, the heavy lifter, the practical elf

Heidi’s idea of the echt Latina seemed to be Natalie Wood in West Side Story

trying to pass as just another stolid example of Upper West Side apartment house

A subsequent coolness, pari passu with the dotcom billionaire’s revenue growth no doubt, is said to’ve developed

Truculent busboys splashed uneaten soup on them as they sped past

HORST CAN’T FIND the ice-cream flavor he really needs today and is showing signs of gathering impatience, alarming in one usually so stolid.

during the daytime, whatever the sun’s angle, admitting the same verdigris light

what forensic Noses like to call the deathmask, the way the indoles of bodily decay assume precedence over all other notes that might be present

Their skins in the spill from this fluorescent indigo lighting register the same pallid hue, as if permanently stained from too much cathode radiation.