Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: October 5th, 2007
"I didn't like looking at people when I did it, like those tribes afraid part of their soul will peel away if someone takes a picture of them."
preview | full record— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)
Date: 2009
"This librarian told me that your mind works like a computer, or maybe an old card file."
preview | full record— Chideya, Farai (b. 1969)
Date: December 13, 2010
"Hospital vigils take place in slow-time, during which the mind floats free, like a frail balloon drifting into the sky."
preview | full record— Oates, Joyce Carol (b. 1938)
Date: 2010
"The idea of sex with a woman, of 'having a lesbian lover,' was simply unthinkable, like living alone at the North Pole or deciding to become a lycanthrope. If the thought existed at all, it was a mote, a sweet nothing--a little 'feather on the breath of God,' barely sensed now and then, but most...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: 2011
"His mind unwinding like a spool of loose thread."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"He stared at her little heart-shaped face and kissed her cheek and kissed her mouth and a thrilling horror spread like a stain through the hollow of his chest."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"And the wind will be dirty in his hair, and there will be no decent place left in his heart because in all this chasing nothing he will have scrubbed it out, scrubbed it hollow, and nothing can fill it back up but words he makes as beautiful as he can."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"When he opened the door the man spoke in a low voice, and it was for Lamb as though his head was filling up with snow, his thinking brain temporarily blanked out, eclipsed by the sudden flash of danger."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie