When I was younger, and had a mind with expansive creativity, I went wandering through the woods near my house. As I set off through the "secluded forest," searching for whatever it was my mind conjured up, I stumbled across a small pond that I had never seen before. In that pond was a heron, peacefully picking it's meal out of the water. I stopped ( Read more... )

Marcello’s friends suck. Then go talk to her. Say “hey…” and stare at her all creepy like. And then proceed to ask for her number, and for leverage say “I’ll give you mine…I write poetry.” And then beat that guy up for looking at yo’ woman. “Albert says whaaaat?” u bitch ( Read more... )

"Society sees the relationships between men and women, and even between women and women and men ( Read more... )

A night of possibilities ( Read more... )

"Men are from Earth, and so are fucking women. Get the fuck over it."

I hear the distant rustling of the wind through the trees as I cross the field. I know the breeze is coming up quickly; I can hear it as it reaches the far end of the field behind me, barreling through the waist-deep grass. I turn around to watch it as it comes toward me with a vengeance. How did I wind up here? I wonder to myself. As I watch the ( Read more... )

Taxi Driver: You probably thought I was a cop.
Ryan: No.
Taxi Driver: Well...I'm not.
Ryan: Alright.

“Everything is falling apart,” he slurs.

“Nothing is falling apart, you’re being dramatic. Have another bourbon.” She refills his glass and pushes it towards him.

“No. I don’t need another bourbon. I need God to be on my side for once,” he states, as he grabs the bourbon glass from her hands.

“You have no idea what you’re talking about, ( Read more... )

I flick my cigarette out the window and the ash comes raining back in on me like confetti. I watch it land on my old black suit pants, worn from many years of use. I remember my mother telling me before my father died that I ought to buy a new pair. “Ma, what’s the point? I’m a gas station attendant. There’s just no point.” I suppose I should ( Read more... )

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