Media Circus Quote by John Varley

“Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it…

— Nicole Castle

“When we came home later, my father was wearing his most transparent pair of boxer shorts, to show us he was angry, and drinking…

— Patricia Lockwood

“Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts…

— Genie Frisbee

“Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to…

— Mark Twain

“he studied Grandma Mama, hearing her hum a morning melody. her flowered robe was slightly soiles, but still vivid in splashes of rose colors.She…

— C-Murder

“If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest adding broken…

— Augusten Burroughs

“A customer came in, the only one in the last couple of hours. The man had the shakes and was looking around like he’d…

— Joe Ide

“He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“What was wrong with him? Why couldn’t he be grateful for all that Mom and Dad did for him, instead of— Cornhole the ear-cunt.…

— George Saunders

“Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their…

— John Mortimer

“Speaking of pits in plum pudding, do you remember your sister’s first attempt? Your grandfather broke off his only remaining tooth trying to eat…

— Catherine Anderson

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James