One Night Four Worlds

Amateur pilots draw detailed portraits of the people that hurt them in the sky. They look like caricatures you would have someone sketch of you at the beach. When they’re done they go get drinks with their old friends that are constantly telling them to do something more lucrative, and some drunk girls in the […]

Buckets

Knives made out of blue metal cut the raw meat into strips and separate them to different sides of the board. Tin buckets are scattered all over the floor, and a red fish jumps between the few of them that contain water. A song is played on the stretched out gums of an old lizard. […]

Falling

I love the way it feels to fall but only in a retrospective way. It’s one of the only things we have that makes us weightless. Even if we have to hit the ground hard and bite the inside of our lip so sharply that drops of blood stain, our otherwise perfect, teeth. What’s better […]

Kaleidoscope

The tenants climb over each other using sharp elbows to move people aside. They are all a day late for their payments and will be forced to pay extra for the efforts of the front office. At the end of this endeavor more than one of them will walk back to their room with a […]

Afflictions Of A Friendless Person

I was walking up a hill once and I was so high I thought I saw an eyeball, with the veins still attached, rolling toward me. This caused me to step out into the street for a moment and watch it pass by, which was when I could tell that it was actually just a […]

Comfort

The summers are heavy around here like a completely drenched towel wrapped around your neck, but with none of the prospective benefits. They peel the posters off their identical white walls, and throw all their stuff in the crappy cars they all borrowed from their parents to drive home to take orders for three months. […]

Evening Walk

She is early, standing outside, rotating a pen between the fingers on her right hand, and an older couple, both holding cans of beer, passes her on the sidewalk nodding politely. There is enough cash in her pockets to pay a third of her rent, but instead of using it wisely she took a long […]