Attic

She accidentally cuts into the sleeve of his shirt; that she is wearing while dissecting Polaroid photos she found among their old belongings. She just threw it on because she could see her breath in the attic, and the old flannel just happened to be draped over a small statue of a goat man. If […]

Brave Enough

The stones in the creek that wobble ever so slightly when you walk across them are polished continuously by the moving water. Looking straight down at the checkerboard floors of the museum always made her feel like she was falling, and the larger than life characters on the high ceilings didn’t look like they cared […]

Blurry Suggestions

She is lying on her back looking into the sun, and he is sitting with all his weight leaning against the brick wall behind them. There are geese several yards away making obnoxious noises at each other while ruining any concentration, and so they both stand up and run toward them hoping to send them […]

Box Cutter

She liked to go to the store with the boxes that contained severed heads. None of them were dead, but something about the head removal process turned the eyes completely white like the marble people used to make statues. You can ask them almost anything and they will tell you, even their darkest secrets are […]

Doorways

The doorways are blocked by piles of overflowing cardboard boxes, and the walls of all the rooms are starting to look the same. They blame all the burn marks in the carpet on the unstable ash trays of microscopic pilots; they make their rounds regularly, and with engines that can fly right past your ear […]

Clear

Hundreds of bent nails stick out jaggedly from the cracked wood of old telephone poles like ancient fighters shot full of arrows. She stares sadly at the old dish sponge in the sink and remembers the face of the street juggler she saw when she was lost on the sidewalks of Baltimore. You try to […]

Thin Branches

Dead batteries get caught in the small gaps between sidewalk tiles, and slowly leak green acid onto the concrete. She still has tiny scars on her legs from running through the woods when she was a kid, and they make her happy while she looks at them. One of the them was shaped like a […]