What We Give Away

Carvings of animals in sections of trees borrowed from friends, and left as monuments in the middle of the local woods. They start to grow back into the earth as the moss, and mushrooms spawn against their surfaces. They are visited on infrequent occasions, often by the overly delirious just looking for some clarity. Some […]

The Weight

Tenderizing knuckles against splintering boards that make up the fence between the subdivision and the backside of a strip mall. All the workers are mixing pills with their favorite cheep beers, and thinking about the minutes between right now, and the next time they have to carry the weight. There is no point in debate […]

Wire

Light from no where passes over the wall, and she noticed through the corner of her eye. Bikes with small frames, as dark as gun metal, are driven without fear off the tops of stone staircases. The last helmet the rider ever possessed was incinerated with a lighter, and a old can of hair spray, when […]

Rank

Taking stock of the shots sustained over the course of the night. There is a chorus line on a poorly lit stage, and half of the dancers are drunk. The people at the bar are quiet, but still whispering about the usual bullshit. No one is getting paid enough, and no one is going to […]

Combination

Cupping water out of the stream with their hands and throwing it at each other. Out of breath in the chase, and remembering you have to go home soon. Old shoes sticking to the black top, and you dragging your feet from train to train, until you see it. A statue of a bird with […]

Interlaced

Sitting around the campfire like different planets around the sun, they took their turns then passed the gun. The hammer kicked back like the jab of a praying mantis, and still they squeezed the trigger. A small pond surrounded by white trees with red leaves, dehydrated hearts hung from thin branches. The edge of a […]

Falling Short Of Summer

Filling silence at the expense of hours of sleep. The floorboards in the hallway all groan when you walk across them. Dragging a red marker across the dead wall of her old school, she remembers what it felt like to stand in line. The bushes are full of worms wrapping themselves in shrouds to become […]