A Lamb Walks Towards A Hill

Tall brown grass scratches their legs while they walk without talking through the fields. There is a rock on the shoreline of the creek that was split in half by them long ago with a bigger rock they carried together over the barbed wire fences. Screwing rabbits pair off on the hilltop and the cats […]

The Light

They go to the park in the mornings after life changing milestones. The spotlight on the roof of the club punctured the sky the night before, and made some owls break their necks on the trunks of local trees. We are on our knees taking orders from the order takers, while the undertakers make us […]

Old Sword

People argue about the logistics of going places and never get anywhere. The wallpaper has a huge diagonal gash that goes from one corner of the wall to the other. The buses that run on wires skulk the streets looking for people that are lost and need something solid to go off of. It’s easily […]

The Gate

The gateway to the public mind has been heavily guarded since it opened for the first time at the garden. Without votes or announcements wardens we’re posted on the wall each with a spy glass made of silver and engraved with the texture of scales. The lines of dreams are long and stretch so far […]

Purpose

One day in the distant future when every remaining form of life is a planet sized collective consciousness. They’ll be able to buy science kits at the store for their kids, and they’ll come with cheap microscopes that break the second time they use them. The experiment in the kit will be to grow their […]

Crowd Of The Wronged

The entertainment on the screen sells the ice cubes in the drinks, and the ice cubes in the drinks water things down. Look at them sit on their piles of corpses. Take a moment and stare at the height of their towers. Is this not the great progress, we’ve described for so long, and do […]

Dreaming Of Insomniacs

Her leg hangs off the side of the bed while the alarm clock on her dresser resets itself to a flashing twelve. She is dreaming about a day from her past when a boy was sitting behind her in class playing with her hair. He is thinking about her too and the fog that their […]