Tangible

Maybe I can start. They think to themselves with eyes seeing far past the tree covered hills out the window. It never happens though and every thought of their own is covered up by the layers of grime that pour out of speakers and screens. Narcotics for quiet minds. Invisible hands guiding us to what […]

Laughs

Getting carried away in statements not thought through. I thought you knew, she said to him while picking up dish towels off the kitchen floor. It was never like this before, but they’re stuck here, and in here the lights go off at dusk whether they like it or not. The roots in their gums […]

Scale

Shoe box buildings with cartoon letters for something as mundane as scraping teeth. The plastic wrappings get into everything like they’re looking for places to hide. We like to stay inside these days only leaving for small errands like running our clothes through the wash. The factories you see from the bridge all have meaningless […]

Terrific

She tries to unscrew the bolt with her hand but can’t get the leverage and its edges dig into her skin. Dark gray foam expands in the cracks in the walls and makes the houses breath rough like tired smokers. Laying out by the stream, on a blanket, she claims she can make love with […]

The Board

There’s a rough sketch of an octopus on the white board. They could tell by a slight difference in blues that it was drawn with two different markers. By the odd folds above the tentacles They figured one of them was probably permanent, thus setting a trap for whoever took it upon themselves to do […]

Static

Cheap plastic lights line the walk way from the driveway to the front door. The light above the porch was foggy from the swarm that gathered around it. It was mostly just mosquitoes and some moths. Static fields bend trees like kids with wads of clay, and drain the day of any light it carried […]

Punishment

Heavy gates regulate the space preventing direct paths from each of them to each other. She talks with friends about the way her drink tastes and lets her fingers go numb from the cold glass. He walks by her old house in the early morning when it’s still dark, and stands for a second in […]