Shrouds

Walking down into the cellar while it’s dark out, and there are humming birds hovering just beyond the small rectangular window. They were watching me like they were looking at a screen. Maybe I was their Friday night movie? Just a slice of life picture about a guy skulking around his own basement digging up […]

Deliverance Of Pain

They keep their old masks nailed to the wall, and drag their hands across them when they walk by. Turns are taken when it comes to the one chair in the garage, that is kept there only for sharpening swords. All the fields in that land were bright red like the foliage itself had rusted […]

Dandelion Seeds

She drinks tea with a book, outside on her break, and just sits on a bench among the dandelion seeds. He digs his pencil into the blue boxes where he writes the numbers, and his heart skips when he sees how much longer he’ll be chained to the task. She was too nervous to tell […]

Underneath

Knocks on doors in the middle of the night cut right to the center of her eardrums. The factory makes plastic containers loudly across the alley due to the poor foresight of drunk city planners. A man brought his stock to the flea market to sell it all, but is having trouble connecting price points […]

Forward

Splitting open all the flesh on our fingers we hope the subtle pain no longer lingers, and the magnets on two sides of the tree come together in the middle cutting it down. Good swimmers drown in the rough waters of indecision. Paranoid about the stray cats that balance on the railing attached to the […]

Night To Day

Faces in the middle of wooden planks make up walls connected to windows, and through those windows we see the beginnings of everything. Crossing paths with strangers that wear t-shirts with logos and text that make you chuckle, and crack your knuckles before returning to work. Jerks take turns ganging up on the quiet, pushing […]

Past The Clouds

Ruthless thoughts are on the docket because living with yourself is a chore. You could step out into space if you wanted right from the place where you stand on the shore. The sky has fallen before in more ways than we can make up myths about. Why panic about something that’s inevitable. It’s really […]