Audience

She sticks a camera lens out the window to help her remember all the things we pass by on this drive to the other side. Flocks of sheep, and cattle flicking insects with their tails we lean against the rails, and count the lights we see. A moldy gas station in the middle of the […]

Trying To Fit In Somewhere

A creature made of pure imagination creates itself with every single thought. It shifts so rapidly in its indecisive youth that it takes upon itself the shape of a storm that’s far too close to look at. In the forest it becomes a walking sapling that can hold water very loosely in its branch like […]

Kindergarten

They’ve always known you have to get them young. Put them into boxes with each other, and watch it all play out. Keep count of who plays along the most with red ink. It is either a stand in for your own blood, or a simple mark of those who are anointed. The windows are […]

Runway

A pilot watched the flight attendants dance through the window in the door. They tried to keep their spirits up when the flights were long and there were few stops in between. Their trip would now be ending soon, the vertical lights marked the long dark road that was made for them. He aimed the […]

Fixed

While sitting in an empty park she thought about why everyone was hurting. The swings were held onto their frame by noisy chains that rattled in the wind. A gray cat with one eye walked across the sand into the bushes and then disappeared without any further calls to pay attention. Her every day and […]

Scattered

Wherever she is the smoke follows. It’s weeping out of the flames from the burning boxes empty of their flowers, mostly violets with added pigment to make them more blue. The layout of the backyard couldn’t hide the fact that this home wasn’t happy. Sounds of dribbled basketballs and spinning skateboard wheels echoed back at […]

Lace

A dead bird is caught in the grill of a new car. The blood stands out so clearly against the white. They take turns rolling dice in cardboard boxes, and allow the odds to choose who eats tonight. The people waiting for the bus, in the cold, are the scarecrows of the neighborhood. The watchmen […]