Tendency

The people carrying box fans on their backs stop for a moment to wash the mud off their hands in the stream. Without thinking the passenger throws a plastic wrapper over his shoulder into the backseat, forgetting that this was his friend’s car, and quickly turns around to try and find it on the floor. […]

Veins

Porcelain representations of everything line the vast mantle he keeps in his basement. The visual frequency of the footsteps they take are like greasy fingerprints on a glass table. He tries to walk while he’s still able, and pokes bugs, crawling across his wall, to death with his cane. There is a chain that’s suspending […]

Below The Zeppelins

Break all of your old CDs in one big pile, but don’t try and huff the smoke they give off when you burn them. The self conscious wolf worries, while it eats, that it was too much of a dick to the deer before biting through its eyes. This haunts it for weeks and makes […]

Sidewalk Damage

There’s a crack in the sidewalk in front of their house, and at night you could sit on the front porch to watch the passing drunk people trip on it. A woman with a voice that sounded European, but not English in any way, mans the prize booth at a small carnival, and encourages the […]

Endless

The arguments people have in their cars are so loud that they echo when they drive through any tunnel. The railings that run down the sides have a few small sections that are stained red from where the paint of a motorcycle helmet scraped off during a wreck. No one notices the young couple touching […]

Cursed

Never follow instructions or chase orbs of light into your local woods. Folk singers that strum lightly on dilapidated guitars will tell the best lies to get the smallest bit of cash to put towards drugs. This doesn’t apply to everyone, but forgetting all embarrassing moments will only serve you by diminishing shame. However, sometimes […]

Everything Here

He does tricks on his skate board while his parents aren’t home, and it rains the entire time that they’re gone. His older brother chain smokes on the back deck, and frequently looks up from his copy of Dune to glance at Trisha through her window where she is dancing. The downpour is loud against […]