A Familiar Place

I don’t give a fuck about anything. Not since the sound started ringing perpetually in my ears. It makes my stomach sick to listen, but I’m afraid of what’s behind the lower volume. You pulled on the drawstrings that came out of my hood, making the fabric tight around my neck. I tell you all […]

Norman Door

The first pseudo intellectual I ever knew was a clarinet player with tentacles? I can’t remember the second one, but when I try to, I can only picture chalk boards with drawings of stars and sporadic squiggles that connect in the middle to form black holes among the chaos. Every day I make tally marks […]

Looking Out Across The Ice

An old man skated figure eights on the surface of a frozen lake. He thought about all the times before When he would come to this place with his friends, and they would all feel a burning in their lungs from the cold air. For some reason his old body did not falter under the […]

Vending

The vending machine clicks against the Twix bar’s shiny wrapper, and of course it proves far to good to be true. His fist comes down like a hammer on the thick plastic shield protecting the property of the unseen candy distributor. Where are you? He thought to himself staring at the crooked candy bar caught […]