Phoenix

Everything she owns is red for some reason. Including the playing cards she plays solitaire with and uses to scrape together piles of weed for rolling. Even the strings on her guitar have a scarlet tint to them that I’ve never seen anywhere else. Her only roommate is a poisonous frog that she keeps in […]

Just Okay

Uncontrollable sleep holds you in place like it has all its weight pressing down against your shoulders. You’ve taken to the tradition of turning over all the rocks you see in your dreams to find out if your subconscious has been leaving you Easter eggs, and the more you look the more that end up […]

Nothing Worth Mentioning

Thinking back to the way that the walls were all made up of off white bricks, and the floors were just massive tiles with dust and pencil shavings between them. The light was almost green through the layers of plastic they kept in front of it to bend it to be more in line with […]

Exploring A Beach Front Clothing Store After A Bad Storm

They gather dozens of old jackets off the floor, and inspect closely the way times have changed. The positioning of pockets is something that apparently goes out of date in record time, and the fewer there are in this town the better. She didn’t know why, but she liked the way the broken glass from […]

Attic

She accidentally cuts into the sleeve of his shirt; that she is wearing while dissecting Polaroid photos she found among their old belongings. She just threw it on because she could see her breath in the attic, and the old flannel just happened to be draped over a small statue of a goat man. If […]

Out Of The Net

Paralysis of the spirit takes hold when the images in the mind become so clouded the viewer cannot remember which were theirs and which were put there by others. Drops of oil create small multi-colored puddles where the ground has warped into the shape of a a bowl, and create fear in the faces of […]

Brave Enough

The stones in the creek that wobble ever so slightly when you walk across them are polished continuously by the moving water. Looking straight down at the checkerboard floors of the museum always made her feel like she was falling, and the larger than life characters on the high ceilings didn’t look like they cared […]