Steel

Irritated skin can’t help but begin to scab over. They keep the words hidden in an old stone box behind locks attached to metal molded four leaf clovers. She runs her hands across them so she can see them in the dark. They are almost too cold to feel, and with this kind of steel. […]

Breath

Brick buildings create shade over fractured foundations, where hard headed weeds still grow through the cracks, in spite of their father’s advice to give up the fight. She pulls them in the summer wearing volleyball knee pads, never witnessing the disappointment of the root system. Holes in the ceiling create pools of light, and they […]

Acoustics

Cleaning the dirt off of door frames with dampened paper towels just to witness all the build up over time. It takes drops of blood on the white floor to stop her from just simply leaning against the mirror. There is no one here, and the sounds of footsteps echo against the drywall even though […]

Dark Ride

There’s a dream she had every once in a while, where for some reason she’d find herself on rails. Unable to see her own hands out in front of her, even when the lights came up and honed in on worn out animatronics in fixed locations with predetermined movements and words. Plastic skin peeled off […]

Explosions

Moving boulders from their resting places at the bottoms of rock slides to the front yards of suburban neighborhoods as decoration. Breaking ribs and chest plates she compresses violently to try and get him to breath again. Aircraft piloted with wireless controllers from the safety of empty hangers, dive straight into model buildings, to test […]

Cable

Everything between them is wrapped around her palm like a bandanna covering a cut, or even just electrical tape, unrolled out of restless fidgeting, to distract from all the shifting in their thoughts. Glass vases shaped like inverted squids sit on dusty end tables made out of mint green glass, and they cannot help but […]

Peripheral

Talk of killing in the back of a van with bad suspension while the landscape vibrates with the engine. They spit sunflower seeds into the sticky interiors of aluminum cans. At city intersections or on-ramps they see men and women with signs, beaten down by the sun and lack of sleep. Flies swarm around the […]