the realm of possibility

there was this woman in Urbana who loved to eat so much that it became her life. The neighbors stopped seeing her. All they would see was a never ending parade of takeout delivery men- pizza boys and chinese box holders and the girls from El Taco Grande who swore the woman left more money for tips than anyone else. They never saw her though, and this went on for years. She left twenties under the front mat and briber boys from mcdonalds to take their breaks delievering her cartons of supersize frieds, sodas, burgers. Eventually, this one kid john and his friends decided to break in and scare her. But she got them instead, because they found her dead in the kitchen, weighting nearly as much as the bed she'd moved in there just so she could be close to all the things
she loved.
everybody's heard the one about love being easy. It happened once to this boy from newton. The girl he liked ended up being the girl who like him. When he saw her in the hall, she brightened and spoke music to him. there was nothing to be afraid of. even though he was white and she was black, blessings rained down from all their friends and family and even a couple of teachers. they never played games with eachother, they never had to worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.

the town of North Orange is still recovering from the day the students came to biology class, and found their teacher lying on a table, his chest cut open, his body dripping with formaldehyde. The window was open and all the from tanks were
empty.