it's so easy to lose direction, isn't it?

it's madness. one moment you are cruising along a straight road, going crazy over the lack of scenery, then suddenly everything forks everywhere. every-forking-where. and you mind goes numb at the thought of the turnings you are missing and yet... you carry on along that straight road. because it's always ( Read more... )

A couple of nights ago I was up late watching a movie. In it, one of the characters, a young woman, gets a call one ordinary evening saying that the man who raised her is in the hospital being treated for a heart attack. She hangs up the phone, grabs her purse and darts for the door, hair flying, face pale. She doesn't tell anyone else in her home ( Read more... )

you and i should get lost.

we'll find a forest, dark and deep. with trees of ancient twine. like the demons of the night, their branches will scathe us and scratch us. and their leaves will fall, slicing our cold skin like a million paper cuts. and the flies. oh, the insects. how they will love our crimson blood. sweet and rusty with iron. they will ( Read more... )

she didn't call.

he waited and waited and waited. he got up. went to the toilet and relieved himself. then walked back to his bed and sat down. staring at the phone and willing for it to ring. it didn't. it stayed silent. like the dead thing that it really was. an artificial source of comfort and warmth. substituting the presence of another human ( Read more... )

i crossed a river.
and could not go home.
could not.
go home.

i waded.
from the shallow bank
to the deep water
to the shallow bank
on the other side.

my feet touched sand.
grainy and rough.
they felt like sharp glass,
which ironically they were.

there were scratches on the balls of my feet.
my toes might have bled. but i fought the waves.
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