Collective

Spent rolls of duct tape are thrown into the bonfire to keep it going a while longer. Her hands are hiding in the sleeves of her jacket between moments of poking the embers and taking drags from the pipe being passed around by everyone. She rejected most of the legends about the land they walked […]

When The Night Falls Through And You Need A Ride Home

They enter through the door that’s just some hanging beads, and all the people in the room are getting high on whatever they happen to have brought with them. There is a bowl of what looks like apple stems in the middle of the table at the corner of the party, and above that there […]

Laura

In the damp hallways of a collapsing farmhouse mushrooms grew along the walls, and vermin chewed on stale bits of old food that were left in the cabinets. The barn was in disarray, as well, and in the center of it an old dairy cow named Laura was dying. A large piece of splintered wood […]

Not Ready To Sleep

She asks me to hand her the hairbrush she keeps on the small table at the front of our room, and I get it for her while she looks at herself in our tall but narrow mirror. I remember when I was too afraid to even meet her eyes with mine, and everything about the […]

Coats

Long coats hang on lines that stretch across the rooftops of old duplexes and look like invisible people pacing around above our heads. The old antennas still cast their slanted shadows over the basin where water is routed down the center like a definitive marker for where the two halves of town meet. Little kids […]

Race Car Bed

The friction between his arm and the red plastic that makes up his race car bed creates blue sparks that reveal the aliens on his movie posters. He couldn’t see anything from his window accept for the fact that it was dark out, and the neighbors across the street had a light on between their […]

Giant’s Drum Kit

There’s melted Jr. Mints in her mom’s van and they’ve been there since her brother borrowed it to go to the movies last summer. They use mop handles as swords and take out their frustrations on each other. During her softball games her father and two of her uncles stand the whole time; spitting sunflower […]