U6: Utilitarian

Her body had become something less and more than a body, something utilitarian. She was an elaborate set of wrenches or hammers to be applied to a delicate money-making process. She thought of herself as a drain.

U is not for Flu

Have had the flu for two days. Will resume tomorrow/after the holiday.

T6: Tortoise

The tortoise sat lumped at the side of the road, monolithic, leathery, unblinking.

S6: Sleep

He just wanted to sleep. It was the cinnamon rolls after dinner that did him in. Cinammon roles after pizza. It wasn't like him to eat this way. At least it hadn't been.

R6: Repeat

It was a repeat motif - on the rooftop of Guadi's La Pedrera, a blonde bride leaned against her husband and a sand-colored smokestack sentinel, while the rooftop salon at our riad in Fez became the setting for the bridal photo shoot of a young Chinese couple from Singapore.

Q6: Quote

He didn't want to come off like a fag, quoting Funny Girl or The Way We Were, but that was the language of his new community, he supposed. No more "Brown Eyed Girl" or Phish. Now it was Madonna, Barbara Streisand, and Cher.

P6: Pontiff

Was there some pontiff I was supposed to appeal to? Some old man with wrinkled earlobes who could tell me what to do?