Exit

She dives in and when the water hitsher skin it all begins to changearound her like a planet pullsin dust from every corner.The no running sign is bentand rusted as well as unnecessarybecause it’s always been ignored.The music sounds hollow throughthe radio because it’s been drenchedforever far too many times.The seagulls in the parking lotfight […]

Glimpses of the Infrastructure

In these parts we tally up the days betweenthe weekends on the door frames that we walkthrough to our bedrooms, and the night is notenough for us to sleep through, but we have tojust to pass the lagging time. Most of us are by ourselves and those thataren’t are all afraid they soon will join […]

Source

There’s a crack that spreads through milesof road over hills and under overpassessmiling at the sky with all its vastness.Insects crawl in and out of it with kickinglegs so small you barely see them.It’s something easy to forget aboutwhen you’re driving with a destinationnothing could get out of if you tried. Pedestrians hold up signs […]

Washer

A dishwasher worked away just like anyother day at an endless pile of dishesthat had to be done, and he couldn’t go homeuntil he finally finished them all.The mist spread out to every wall and creepedalong the two way mirror that hoveredin between him and the office.The extra weight of endless hours in the gapsof […]

Outward

He couldn’t believe that his single bedroomwindow was unlocked and using the classictechnique of tying his sheets togetherhe repelled down the side of the buildingto make his escape. They were all thereas a way to make them stop with all theirwasted time on video games they couldn’thelp but play, but really they were countingall the […]

Phases

I drive by houses when I’m back near places I used to live and for a second it starts to feel like I have gone back to that era of my life. The days are long out here and I know the only way to shorten them is to take all of those pictures off […]

Days Without Incident

She broke it off with him before his late night shift at the plant where he unhooked the slaughtered pigs from the conveyor belt where they swung as they descended from the upper floors to him. He never felt the need to focus since the task he had before him was as simple as a […]