Branded

Here we are cursing ourselves for letting the edge of the metal ring dig into our hands and giving up long before they’ve met even a single part of our extensive demands. I’m tired of walking at night under all their fake light that’s only bright enough to illuminate the names on the buildings as […]

Design

The paint is flaking off the walls even though they keep on getting taller, and out the window in the street the only thing besides the heat is a couple notes from the piano in the main room drifting out beyond the barriers we breach when we are all wore out of being with ourselves. […]

Economy of Service

She always said she wanted to build up all the money that she could to buy out all the houses that they took away from people who paid their rent to those that didn’t make their mortgage as they promised. All she had managed at the time was a garage that all her friends would […]

Bright

She tears the sleeves off her brother’s old shirt and puts it on to have the feeling she belongs here at this party that her parents threw last minute before she could leave. Old work friends of her dad’s were drinking glasses of beer on the patio and her mother was scanning the stations to […]

Bent

Unplugged phone lines hang like streamers from the trees. Faces no one believes in are carved into the woodwork. Broken Christmas ornaments are eaten like potato chips by cyborgs with their automatic minds. The last family of foxes finishes off the rabbits they caught while hunting in the rain and they know to make it […]

Incline

Plastic tracks connect together to simulate impossible races in impossible places. Through the bedroom window and off the roof they cross a finish line that isn’t marked by anything. Any walking by could see that while this was a conventional waste of time it was also something special burned into their mind, never forgotten. I […]

Outcome

Shark eyed men watch reruns of baseball games while a woman as young as their daughters mixes cocktails with a shelf of limited resources. They yell at the game like they haven’t already seen its final outcome and are politely told to tone it down or the door was right behind them if they couldn’t. […]