Sum

It was the late spring but all she could think about was summer and how far she planned to run away the first chance that she saw they didn’t care. It wasn’t fair how she was floating in the shuffle of a thousand others in a struggle not to drown within the crowd. It was […]

Small Time Talent

The back stages of shady small time shows are places not so strange to you, the low light and the rafters are a comfort like a familiar face after a rough night spent alone out in the wilderness. You ask the people what they do and they scoff and question how you even got there. […]

Thorns

I pull the thorns out of the leg the vine was wrapped around. I bleed in dots that sting like whiskey shots, but worse and not nearly as intoxicating. I leave the bloody vine where it lays and make my way across the empty field where the grass is long and combed by the wind […]

New Layers

Fighting over food where nothing grows. The grass is short and full of snails that bend the blades like question marks but mirrored. A statue of a giant bear wrapped up in moss and fungal patches is the only thing that stands tall in the clearing. Industrial development has always drained the magic from the […]

Gather

A microphone dangles from a cable hung from a streetlight and as it sways its sensors pick up on the wind. A crowd with glowing necklaces, and paint that covers what their clothes are showing off, stand in picture perfect circles wrapped around a place of ever burning fire. Tall men carry women half their […]

Sail

She puts her ear up against the door to listen for something more than just the wind, but you never get what you want while fretting over wishes. There were dishes in her sink floating in the foam of all her scrubbing. When she looked out at the city the best she ever saw was […]

Blur

A new constellation in the shape of a division sign could be lined up if your eye was just off center. It was wedged between Orion and the newly waning moon in a modest swath of sky, that didn’t even seem that high, but still was way far off from any rocket. At night the […]