Dandelion Seeds

She drinks tea with a book, outside on her break, and just sits on a bench among the dandelion seeds. He digs his pencil into the blue boxes where he writes the numbers, and his heart skips when he sees how much longer he’ll be chained to the task. She was too nervous to tell […]

Underneath

Knocks on doors in the middle of the night cut right to the center of her eardrums. The factory makes plastic containers loudly across the alley due to the poor foresight of drunk city planners. A man brought his stock to the flea market to sell it all, but is having trouble connecting price points […]

Forward

Splitting open all the flesh on our fingers we hope the subtle pain no longer lingers, and the magnets on two sides of the tree come together in the middle cutting it down. Good swimmers drown in the rough waters of indecision. Paranoid about the stray cats that balance on the railing attached to the […]

Night To Day

Faces in the middle of wooden planks make up walls connected to windows, and through those windows we see the beginnings of everything. Crossing paths with strangers that wear t-shirts with logos and text that make you chuckle, and crack your knuckles before returning to work. Jerks take turns ganging up on the quiet, pushing […]

Past The Clouds

Ruthless thoughts are on the docket because living with yourself is a chore. You could step out into space if you wanted right from the place where you stand on the shore. The sky has fallen before in more ways than we can make up myths about. Why panic about something that’s inevitable. It’s really […]

Tangible

Maybe I can start. They think to themselves with eyes seeing far past the tree covered hills out the window. It never happens though and every thought of their own is covered up by the layers of grime that pour out of speakers and screens. Narcotics for quiet minds. Invisible hands guiding us to what […]

Laughs

Getting carried away in statements not thought through. I thought you knew, she said to him while picking up dish towels off the kitchen floor. It was never like this before, but they’re stuck here, and in here the lights go off at dusk whether they like it or not. The roots in their gums […]