Holding brooms by the bottom of their handles, the store clerks tried to sweep the pigeon back out the doors of the grocery store. They were eventually successful, and celebrated by stuffing all the items that had been contaminated into a trash can with wheels like an office chair. They used a liquid the same […]

There’s nothing to see outside except the lights below the billboard, but they made it easier to read the text praising the efforts of a local rocking chair craftsman. Old fashion markets must need old fashion marketing; in the same way that most computers made in the early nineties required the memory on square disks. […]

The parallel fences are made of large bones and sculpted to look like the double helices in our blood. The scarecrows wait around all day and are suspended by a system of ropes and mechanisms much more sophisticated than the normal style in the echo of crucifixion. She sits on a hill overlooking this and […]

Spent rolls of duct tape are thrown into the bonfire to keep it going a while longer. Her hands are hiding in the sleeves of her jacket between moments of poking the embers and taking drags from the pipe being passed around by everyone. She rejected most of the legends about the land they walked […]

They enter through the door that’s just some hanging beads, and all the people in the room are getting high on whatever they happen to have brought with them. There is a bowl of what looks like apple stems in the middle of the table at the corner of the party, and above that there […]

In the damp hallways of a collapsing farmhouse mushrooms grew along the walls, and vermin chewed on stale bits of old food that were left in the cabinets. The barn was in disarray, as well, and in the center of it an old dairy cow named Laura was dying. A large piece of splintered wood […]

Long coats hang on lines that stretch across the rooftops of old duplexes and look like invisible people pacing around above our heads. The old antennas still cast their slanted shadows over the basin where water is routed down the center like a definitive marker for where the two halves of town meet. Little kids […]

The friction between his arm and the red plastic that makes up his race car bed creates blue sparks that reveal the aliens on his movie posters. He couldn’t see anything from his window accept for the fact that it was dark out, and the neighbors across the street had a light on between their […]

There’s melted Jr. Mints in her mom’s van and they’ve been there since her brother borrowed it to go to the movies last summer. They use mop handles as swords and take out their frustrations on each other. During her softball games her father and two of her uncles stand the whole time; spitting sunflower […]