Action.
“How are you feeling?” She sat on the bed, trying hard not to pick at the nail polish on her fingernails. Even though her heart was racing she shrugged, “I’m a…
Upon a Pedestal (Ramblings, Pt. 2)
Was it unfair for me to stow this extra weight upon your shoulders? The combined mass of all that is me? Not to a shallow emotional extent, but to an…
An Unsent Message (Ramblings, Pt. 1)
As I laid in bed, hopelessly reminiscing, I thought about how it would go. It wouldn’t be an ultimatum, but it would sure as hell feel like one, and an unjust…
It's a Lifestyle (Day 42)
The room stank of stale cigarette smoke and disappointment. Machines designed to shatter dreams, trading money for hope of success or for stories, stood in fat…
Television.
“What’s bothering you?” He was lounging in his chair, sipping his beer, and watching the TV. His everyday routine was always on schedule. “Nothing is wrong.”…
Curb Side.
The corner of the alley was getting damp and cold. The fallen rain from late afternoon still moistened the pavement, not a dry spot to stand on. Rooftops and…
Living with the Trio
You step off to the right. Darkness, Nothing, and Desperation yell blood curdling screams. They want you to come back to them, they tell you that you will…
The Power of Flight
He sprints towards the edge. The tests seem to support the theory The wings of wax and feathers are strapped onto a leather harness around his chest…
Desperation Procrastination
Colliding with the gravel-covered roof knocked the swear words out of my mouth as I formed them. Slamming into with the exhaust vent finished off what little…
Trembling.
Shallows breaths escaped a pair of cold, blue lips. The more steps she took, the closer it got. No matter how fast she ran the growling seemed to follow close…
Mutual Friends
Comfortable, and yet, so shy, The two of them appear. I have watched my two close friends Flirt for almost a year. Fleeting glances, inside jokes, Normally…
The End of Lake Herman Road
At the end of Lake Herman road the salt marsh gave way to a water-bound repository for sea faring relics. The behemoths of metal and paint rested in stoic…
Reformed
Deeper into the center the smallest of pieces still breaking the light gathers as it transforms once more. Receding from the edges of birth-destruction the…
Expanded
It expanded, black on blackness, desperate on desperation. It melted softly into itself, the dark surface reflected nothing, sucked all space deep, sinking…
Dissolved
Water drops littered the keyboard as they dripped off her hands, sliding solemly down her finger tips she dissolved, out of being a human, into obsession over…
A Modern Odyssey
The sand surrounding became cold like the night sky around him. Walking out of the building that kept him safe, he found himself alone. Men around him dead. He…
The Blue Bard
Day 219 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry 259. Time: 4:13 A.M. Temperature 29 degrees Fahrenheit. The ship, if it could be called that, finally came in. It…
On A Beach where One Man Breathes
Day 216 since nuclear fallout. Diary entry number 156. Time 2:12 AM. Temperature 22 degrees Fahrenheit. I have awaken once again to a growling stomach. Five…
Crickets II
One afternoon in 2005, mowing the lawn brought me to tears. “Does she have allergies?” You might ask. What brought me to tears was dozens of crickets fleeing…
Hollow Moon
Don’t try to seperate me, try to digest me don’t feel like I’m numbers, please hate me and hate others. So try me and feel like it, seduce me and fight…