Currency

Eating what they find one bite at a time they walk along the treeline of the woods so overgrown there is no entrance. It is possible to learn to see the faces in the foliage, and they have this power between them like a canteen full of water they all share. Only one is aware […]

Fleet

A young man sits alone on his front stoop. His life had turned to a long and lonely loop. He was always stuck at another’s beck and call. At night so angry he sends his fist straight through the wall. A girl walks by and sees him sitting there. The painful look in his bright […]

Unrest

Caught in the lock down the whole town has to stay right where it is. Professionals with clubs walk in big lines to herd those with the sense to run back to where they’re fleeing from. A flower shop front window is made into a mess that cuts through people’s shoes and massacres their feet. […]

Drained

Vampire drawings on the bark from a tree sit out on the table and from there you can see all the layers in the mountain cut through long ago with rapid explosions that echo out from their source even now. The woman who drew them jumped from the top. I didn’t know her before, but […]

End Of A Lease

They have to leave, but that’s easy when you don’t have any friends. Stacking cardboard full picture frames and albums full of pictures. It’s not real if you can’t see it with your eyes. All the signs that this was ending were ignored with nights pretending things were normal. The T.V. activates to static and […]

Sublime

Here we are again thinking our way back to where we always go. You never tried to find the truth you weren’t allowed to know. I bury my bare hand deep within the fallen snow, reaching for the winter while it falls around us, even though… You make a change but you want to change […]

Overheard

I see them all walking down the sidewalk with their faces pointed directly at the ground. Their headphones full of sound that cancels out all of the ordinary noises that remind them where they are. The weeds in the cracked pavement get crushed by cars that circle like the planets simply looking for a place […]