Doorways

The doorways are blocked by piles of overflowing cardboard boxes, and the walls of all the rooms are starting to look the same. They blame all the burn marks in the carpet on the unstable ash trays of microscopic pilots; they make their rounds regularly, and with engines that can fly right past your ear […]

Clear

Hundreds of bent nails stick out jaggedly from the cracked wood of old telephone poles like ancient fighters shot full of arrows. She stares sadly at the old dish sponge in the sink and remembers the face of the street juggler she saw when she was lost on the sidewalks of Baltimore. You try to […]

Thin Branches

Dead batteries get caught in the small gaps between sidewalk tiles, and slowly leak green acid onto the concrete. She still has tiny scars on her legs from running through the woods when she was a kid, and they make her happy while she looks at them. One of the them was shaped like a […]

Heartfelt Distance

Her legs are wrapped tightly in the floral designs on her stalkings, and everyone’s eyes trace their lines when they look at her. Even the children want to try and talk with her and give her single flowers they swiped from the vases at the centers of the tables. She chuckles at them and accepts […]

Chemical Steam

We find enjoyment in shattering cheap tables, you can buy in any store, with the sledge hammers we found in the shed. The plastic melts into the burning street while they sit waiting for days on the curb. The chemical steam coming off of them refracts the light above like a mirage, and the horseflies […]

Remaining Fragments

They sit on the stairs and tell stories about the times when they would climb into whatever dark holes they could find just to see something new. The moments they held onto from back then are too few, and they struggle to keep a grip on the last remaining fragments. They sketch on napkins faces […]

Tendency

The people carrying box fans on their backs stop for a moment to wash the mud off their hands in the stream. Without thinking the passenger throws a plastic wrapper over his shoulder into the backseat, forgetting that this was his friend’s car, and quickly turns around to try and find it on the floor. […]

Veins

Porcelain representations of everything line the vast mantle he keeps in his basement. The visual frequency of the footsteps they take are like greasy fingerprints on a glass table. He tries to walk while he’s still able, and pokes bugs, crawling across his wall, to death with his cane. There is a chain that’s suspending […]

Below The Zeppelins

Break all of your old CDs in one big pile, but don’t try and huff the smoke they give off when you burn them. The self conscious wolf worries, while it eats, that it was too much of a dick to the deer before biting through its eyes. This haunts it for weeks and makes […]

Sidewalk Damage

There’s a crack in the sidewalk in front of their house, and at night you could sit on the front porch to watch the passing drunk people trip on it. A woman with a voice that sounded European, but not English in any way, mans the prize booth at a small carnival, and encourages the […]