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 […]

Submarine

The people lost in one big massive motion, that looks just like a sea of gray and faces, all want to find their way and be okay. Ones who are assumed to be the guilty, and live their lives wrapped up in scarlet cloth, watch closely all the yellow lights around them and when they […]

Eternity

This time she hoped the gravestones would be accurate and that the names would match the teeth attached inside. She wore nothing they had seen before and even through six feet of earth the jaws of all the skeletons were dropped. They released a jar of butterflies because doves were too expensive, and a few […]