He looks on ( Read more... )

She's running out of room for these empty shells. Her mind spins to find a place to put them, but after a while they begin to pile up and to pile up and to pile up. So she puts some in little suits and send them off to work in offices that have long forgotten why they even began to reach for the sky. At the end of the day they take short icarus ( Read more... )

You have marked hands that touch ( Read more... )

She passed through school quickly and with little pain. Whenever called on she wouldn't hesitate, but in a clear voice would respond with a correct and unremarkable answer. She ate lunch alone surrounded by hundreds of other children. They were all alone too. She was just the only one who knew it. She lived not as much beneath their radar as ( Read more... )

She likes to do her laundry at 4:30 in the morning while a light rain falls through the full-length street level window. Watching sidewalks slowly turn slate gray. People pass by in a hurry, shields pointing upwards protecting them from light, protecting them from life. She's never owned an umbrella. The shelves in her apartment are filled with ( Read more... )

You don't know it, but they take you apart when you're sleeping ( Read more... )

I know that in reality boxers hold each other during matches so they can take a rest and not get hit. The referee frowns at this. Just for a second let's pretend that they embrace because they feel such a bond with each other that they can't wait to express it. Even in the middle of a match. Even with all those eyes watching. Even with the ( Read more... )

No continuation, at least not today ( Read more... )

You calmy sit across from me at the table where I have been shuffling these cards since I can't remember. It's only you, me, this table and one continous three step motion. Cut, flip, slide. Over and over again like an Escher waterfall. Cut. Flip. Slide. No one knows when it started. As for when it will end, well ( Read more... )

I'm sick of dreams that don't make sense. The ones that go on all night and even follow me into the first few hours of my day. So in the shower I can never be sure if behind the curtain there awaits a procession of masquerade figures with unfinished business ( Read more... )