Closing

Holding brooms by the bottom of their handles, the store clerks tried to sweep the pigeon back out the doors of the grocery store. They were eventually successful, and celebrated by stuffing all the items that had been contaminated into a trash can with wheels like an office chair. They used a liquid the same […]

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Trend Sparked By A Mundane View

There’s nothing to see outside except the lights below the billboard, but they made it easier to read the text praising the efforts of a local rocking chair craftsman. Old fashion markets must need old fashion marketing; in the same way that most computers made in the early nineties required the memory on square disks. […]

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Parallel

The parallel fences are made of large bones and sculpted to look like the double helices in our blood. The scarecrows wait around all day and are suspended by a system of ropes and mechanisms much more sophisticated than the normal style in the echo of crucifixion. She sits on a hill overlooking this and […]

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Collective

Spent rolls of duct tape are thrown into the bonfire to keep it going a while longer. Her hands are hiding in the sleeves of her jacket between moments of poking the embers and taking drags from the pipe being passed around by everyone. She rejected most of the legends about the land they walked […]

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Laura

In the damp hallways of a collapsing farmhouse mushrooms grew along the walls, and vermin chewed on stale bits of old food that were left in the cabinets. The barn was in disarray, as well, and in the center of it an old dairy cow named Laura was dying. A large piece of splintered wood […]

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Not Ready To Sleep

She asks me to hand her the hairbrush she keeps on the small table at the front of our room, and I get it for her while she looks at herself in our tall but narrow mirror. I remember when I was too afraid to even meet her eyes with mine, and everything about the […]

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