The Boogeyman  Les Marcott
It's not always the stray or the intended bullet.  It's not the bad heart, the bad liver, the Mad Cow disease, Anthrax, the knock out punch of a heavyweight fighter.  And it's not the bus that comes out of nowhere to plow you over. 

Memorial?  Harriet Halliday Renaud
It was only when the pain finally took over that I knew I had to realize something: that I had skipped some necessary piece of information about our lives. 

Violetta's Lament  Griselda Steiner
No woman should ever die to suit a hypocrite's lie.
Lyric from the musical Hypatia  

Five Easy Irish-Americans  Patrick Walsh
Hey, you remember Sully? 
Yeah, the kid with the kooky-eye.
Well I heard he made a killing
before the market took a dive.

Undress Me  Michael Bettencourt
In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.

The Greed Gene  Michael Bettencourt
A young couple is told by their genetic counselor — the "genie of genes" — that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do to stop the expression of the gene. What are they going to do?