Regrets Within A Broken Sword

A man with a broken sword dragged his feet into a small town with buildings made only of dark lumber. There were no churches or statues, or shrines to anything just a small library looked over by the elderly that sat in various rocking chairs with dozens of cats. He had been to this town […]

Beneath Us All

She has dark makeup around her eyes, and is looking off at nothing in particular. Everything they know about her is over heard and exaggerated into something bigger. Like hot steel being twisted into crosses, for decoration, to be bought by Christian seniors for inflated prices, they won’t think about. People at a distance are […]

Handmade

Handmade bombs taped to the support beams of roller coasters somehow never explode. Her legs were pale like paper and she had the urge to just envelope them with ink. The air-conditioned teeth of the filters cough due to the abundance of buildup, and cannot scrape it off without their masters. People stand in lines […]

Emissary

A lizard laid across her feet, and she talked about the way it felt to eat a soul. They were always cold like an orb of ice cream, that doesn’t melt, just lingering in that area of perfect texture. The first one she ever had was forced down her throat by a creature in a […]

All That Happens

Air pockets in the drink avoid detection always rising past the eyes. They can’t see each other under shattered streetlights, and so they talk and move in line with the sounds of their voices. Around them there are others, further separated from the rest, isolated in rooms with broken glass on the floor, never quite […]

Galaxy

Remember the place where the time ran out. Under tube-like glass bridges with no shadows just bands of light that break the sidewalk. All the talk is in circles around piles of rotting food, the underside of picnic tables covered in layers of gum. There is only one way things can go from here. They’ve […]

Past

Paper moves above us almost on its own. High scores blink rapidly on the news, in reference to money, dead, and wounded. Broken bits of porcelain from all over the building are stirred together, and can’t be seen as what they were before. Suppressing all identity under blankets of uniformity, hiding all the human faces […]