Plunge
The beams filtered through her eyelashes, like sunlight under a canopy. She opened her eyelids a little wider, and felt her eyes burn in the glare. She…
A Meeting
It was Tuesday, as most things like meetings usually tend to be. I was sitting at a large table surrounded by six others. To my left was my good friend Jesse…
Rumors and Cold Facts
Each time the door opened, Carol pretended to be asleep, his arm curled around his tankard. Being in one of the lower cross spokes, the view of Hub towered…
Evocation
“Where am I going?” I asked. “It doesn’t matter, go wherever you want. Turn on the radio and then shush.” Jim said. He had a yellow legal pad propped up by one…
In Between Minds: Bitter Returns
As the details of the scene became clear, my grogginess fell away, leaving behind a strange sense of unfamiliarity with my own body. My arm seemed to throb in…
Life Isn't Always What It's Cracked Up To Be!
Stomper leaned back against a tree causing it to groan in protest. He paid it no mind, most trees were whiners and took much more effort to truly break unless…
Reckoning
The wind was fierce and the young lieutenant shifted his weight as he stood upon the narrow causeway, high above the crashing waves. An ambassador to the…
From the Shadows
She wore the darkness like a veil, drawing it softly across her face as she peered from the shadows, careful never to lean too far and risk too much. The…
Monster (My verse) (Rap)
Who’s the monster with the biggest mouth? swallowing the world spitting nothing out Heartless, inside is darkness black holes and vacuum disintegrating matter…
Mismatched
Bushes rustle and branches snap as I quickly run through them. My lungs are burning from the amount of activity I’m putting them through. I could hear it. The…
Dignity
“Mom?” “Not now Pike.” “Mommy what’s happening?” “I said not now son! Stay Quiet!” You stop tugging on your moms skirt and hide behind her as she peers…
Dignity
“Mom?” “Not now Pike.” “Mommy what’s happening?” “I said not now son! Stay Quiet!” You stop tugging on your moms skirt and hide behind her as she peers…
Memory is Like Water Carried in Cupped Hands
An uncomfortable tingling ran across my shoulders and up the back of my neck; the sensation of insects crawling across my grave. “Where did he go? People don’t…
In Between Minds: Lullaby
Emotion was stronger here, more pure. I barely avoided being swallowed up by my sense of failure and kicked it off and away like it was a boot, heavy with mud…
Occupation: Week Six
Rayne flung the front door open and dashed across the dead lawn, kicking up a mess of broken white spears that trailed to the ground behind her. An anguished…
The Last Dance
Elise swept around the room filling it with manufactured sighs and coy glances, though there was none left to notice her. The gown that swished around her…
To His Dying Breath
Mark was strong and lean. He knew how to fight, how to shoot, and how to make love. His world was small, full of small men. One of them, a mob guy by the name…
Broken Stories
Five heads chatter in a round blue and green basket. Their stories interrupt each other and mix. Every conversation is binary—heard and unheard.
The Shadow of the Colossus
--wasn’t a great man but he was a good one, honest in his emotions, kind, generous with his possessions, time and money. That generosity eventually made him…
Utopia Now (Poem)
Utopia Now by Marie Fujimoto the city is overwhelmingly tall, bright, gleaming in eye-stabbing glory all glass and contours a museum built atop coffins stacked…