Overheard

I see them all walking down the sidewalk with their faces pointed directly at the ground. Their headphones full of sound that cancels out all of the ordinary noises that remind them where they are. The weeds in the cracked pavement get crushed by cars that circle like the planets simply looking for a place […]

Exodus

A detached muffler hugs the side of a back road that barely anyone takes, and dirt mice live inside it like a cave. When the wind sweeps through the open fields it moves the crops the same way as a wave, and in that there is hope that we can save what worked about this […]

Greater Banks

Quiet people sit in the hallway counting the cracks in the tiles. Outside the birds chew up praying mantises with the edges of their beaks. No one is really trying anymore. Everyday is just a procession through the motions. Trains pass by a few minutes behind, merchandise sits forgotten on the shelves. Lightning strikes in […]

Incomplete

We wake up counting minutes in our heads and still we stay up late. Nothing about tomorrow is decided and yet it’s still our fate. Everything is so much less important when we aren’t awake I almost wish that sleeping was the hard part. You see her look at you through the dark, her eyes […]

Broken Fingers

There’s a T.V. in the waiting room that swaps between a cooking show and hockey fights. A little something for everyone I suppose while we all sit quietly with everything that’s wrong with us. I hear the doors behind the desk burst open and the rapid wheels of a stretcher scrape through the corridor. A […]

Platitudes

While cleaning off the chalkboards she worried that she’d never find a balance for when things went wrong or right. In falling snow she walked to her car and through a distant window saw a light. She knew the room in which it burned beyond the redbrick flaking in the cold, and didn’t do as […]

Fortify

I entered through the center door and the room was full of bowling pins, along with several red guitars growing out of the walls. On the stage there was a woman swaying in a shining dress and her movements washed over everything like how night fills all the space the day is done with. I […]