Implications Of The Prologue

Sometimes it feels like I went to high school with the whole world all at once. The banners in the hallway were a symbol of the box we all were stuck in. The tests were centered around movies we’d have to watch to find the answers, and they would almost never be there, so clearly […]

School Night

The houses look like caved in faces at the fruition of a fight. Expensive dresses stand on their own on every sidewalk and hold their cigarettes between the fingers of their gloves made out of silk, that are filled by nothing, but still function at their best as almost arms. Middle school kids eat fast […]

Gamble

They placed bets with the spirit of all streetlights in a pool of dark where no one could find them. Its hands were cold like tiles in the Winter and the webbing in between them was transparent just like plastic but with a pattern that resembled something scaled. They hitchhiked out there across several Western […]

Axis

Sometimes I get worried that the edges of my thoughts are getting sharper in a way that is as literal as knives. Which is to say that I have made some poor decisions, but somehow it all adds up to burning light. That one beam of something ancient gave me all my sight. A broken […]

Parting Words

Everyday on T.V. they tell us that the world is at its end, and I think that scared us for a little bit, but lately it’s all that anyone can look forward to. The occasional car crashes on the street outside our apartment are like a compartment in my mind, and I go there sometimes […]

runoff

In a room filled with the runoff from three different concerts, people whispered to who they showed up with that everyone else was clearly completely insane. Guys who drove in from out of town to hear the songs they nodded to in their trucks, were polite to all the punk girls because the way they […]

Best Guess

I never knew you, but I filled in all the gaps with what I hoped for. Both our hands shake just the same when we are putting down our words against the page. Even in that description I am reliant on the impressions of second hand assumptions based in slightly better context than my own. […]