Exploring A Beach Front Clothing Store After A Bad Storm

They gather dozens of old jackets off the floor, and inspect closely the way times have changed. The positioning of pockets is something that apparently goes out of date in record time, and the fewer there are in this town the better. She didn’t know why, but she liked the way the broken glass from […]

Attic

She accidentally cuts into the sleeve of his shirt; that she is wearing while dissecting Polaroid photos she found among their old belongings. She just threw it on because she could see her breath in the attic, and the old flannel just happened to be draped over a small statue of a goat man. If […]

Out Of The Net

Paralysis of the spirit takes hold when the images in the mind become so clouded the viewer cannot remember which were theirs and which were put there by others. Drops of oil create small multi-colored puddles where the ground has warped into the shape of a a bowl, and create fear in the faces of […]

Brave Enough

The stones in the creek that wobble ever so slightly when you walk across them are polished continuously by the moving water. Looking straight down at the checkerboard floors of the museum always made her feel like she was falling, and the larger than life characters on the high ceilings didn’t look like they cared […]

Blurry Suggestions

She is lying on her back looking into the sun, and he is sitting with all his weight leaning against the brick wall behind them. There are geese several yards away making obnoxious noises at each other while ruining any concentration, and so they both stand up and run toward them hoping to send them […]

Box Cutter

She liked to go to the store with the boxes that contained severed heads. None of them were dead, but something about the head removal process turned the eyes completely white like the marble people used to make statues. You can ask them almost anything and they will tell you, even their darkest secrets are […]

Doorways

The doorways are blocked by piles of overflowing cardboard boxes, and the walls of all the rooms are starting to look the same. They blame all the burn marks in the carpet on the unstable ash trays of microscopic pilots; they make their rounds regularly, and with engines that can fly right past your ear […]