Wishing Wells

There is a cold quadrant of my brain that cannot stop fixating on the small things, I can’t even understand the directions of the street signs that I only must rely on because I keep dragging myself out here every time. I am envious of the people who grew up with parents that never let […]

Epilogue

I dream about a chess board that bleeds when all its pieces move across it. I listen for the plastic wrappers collapsing in the palms of people’s self conscious fists as they try to cover up what they have done. I don’t know what we’re hiding from, but the corners of our eyes have been […]

Different Kind of Breathing

A banner red as fire makes the sky bleed like an unattended wound. She saw it floating by in a dream where all the kitchen knives were duller than the leaves. I trace the outline of the forest with my eyes and let my hand work on its own against the paper. She ties her […]

Boundary

We walk along the boundary between the places where we’re going and the others we’re afraid to leave behind. Although it’s more about the feeling of being stuck inside and unable to grow. I want to know what I can do beyond just driving the same cross streets everyday without a way to stop whats […]

Weirdo

They tell her they are ditching Dan, the group consisted of some friends who spent long shifts together selling food and drinks to unlimited corporate customers. They were using tonight as a stress relief and after work they all went out to a bar that they could walk to from the front door of their […]

Forever Friday

A high school football game is happening and a bench warmer’s father eats nachos while he drinks screwdrivers from an aluminum flask, and when the coin is flipped the official didn’t have to ask they all knew they would be choosing to kick off the game. The band all hovers around a flame that haunts […]

Branded

Here we are cursing ourselves for letting the edge of the metal ring dig into our hands and giving up long before they’ve met even a single part of our extensive demands. I’m tired of walking at night under all their fake light that’s only bright enough to illuminate the names on the buildings as […]