Colony

Another day goes by and more cracks spread through the asphalt, creeping close across the surface that is cooling now as we approach the night. Everyone is in their rooms, if they are among the lucky, and they are pretending to be heroes by pressing buttons, or just watching some T.V. It feels like our […]

Simple Summer

Sometimes driving is a sensory overload like all the times when she would hold her hand out the window just to feel the cold air rushing underneath her. I kept the music loud enough to drown the engine out because containing those explosions hit so close to home it almost pulled me back. We took […]

The Wastes

We all are hoping, as we count up all the memories that make us unresponsive that it is in fact not us who have become the untold crazy ones. A swarm of flies eat a dropped cone of blue cotton candy off the concrete from the inside until there’s nothing but the paper and the […]

Crossroad

I walked there almost every day when the morning was returning to the air. This cast out bit of farmland that hadn’t yielded anything in generations. There was a bird nest there that I liked to check up on from a distance and make sure the mourning mother didn’t need me as a savior from […]

Party

There is a woman resting against the bark of a sakura tree with her eyes closed. She is awake but needs a break from all the sunlight. There are tallies marked on the sheath of her sword for the people she has killed along her way. She knows there is a better day ahead of […]

Medium

The attic cardboard boxes of the future will be filled with dusty memory drives that no longer fit the ports of new computers. Either that or maybe there will be an old PC among them as a record keeper of a past you can only see in former resolutions. This isn’t much different than the […]

Breaking Down

I turn off the lights to make it easier to picture her on the train between her district and my own. The windows are pointless, showing only the neglected rusted walls of all our man made mistakes, but without them things would just be more enclosed. The lowest on the corner store totem pole props […]