Savants

There’s a group of beautiful women all playing violin around a hotel pool. It was a cheap one just out past a small casino in the greater Dayton area. I just happened to be drinking from a flask. They barely even had to ask and I was down there with no room key and no […]

Prophecy

There’s a wolf looking in through the edge of the the door frame, fixated on the cradle, by the far wall of the room. The mother breaks the mop she’s using with her foot, and turns the handle into a spear of simple splinters. They stare each other down until the sun sets, and the […]

Confession

She has a bandage on her heel to treat the blister she developed after walking for a while in my shoes. She always liked them because they slipped on nice and easy, but she never went so far with them before. Stain glass decorations mark the church door and are a reminder I haven’t been […]

Look Around

The black and white T.V. matched up with all the photos hung around it like the room was dedicated to the past. Steep hills climbed up with wooden stairs that have been there since the high school’s first enrollment. All towns must have their place like this where the tragedy is stored, like an old […]

Knock Off

A school bus that just does circles through the neighborhood and never stops is making so much noise I cannot think. It’s like a garbage truck that’s empty so the hollow shell makes sounds that resonate much further without weight. When I leave the house the neighbors are smoking in the rain debating about the […]

Tidal

A rocky beach with crashing waves where shells the size of lampshades are pulled from the gray sand just like dust out of the corner of your eye. The bright red sky is like an exit wound for the whole earth and the blood is being drained in the shape of a spiral by just […]

Long Gone

She feels the breeze on her bare feet and leans back to hold the sun against her neck. Her hair is the color of sand and is tied up with a band as red as the frozen cocktail in her hand. The backyard flowers are mostly dead, but the ones that lived are drawing from […]