A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in part...icular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, k...nucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Actually being married seemed so crowded with unspoken rules and odd secrets and unfathomable responsibilities that it had no more... occurred to her to imagine being married herself than it had to imagine driving a motorcycle or having a job. She had, however, thought about being a bride, which had more to do with being the center of attention and looking inexplicably, temporarily beautiful than it did with sharing a double bed with someone with hairy legs and a drawer full of boxer shorts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many ...serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »