Adjusting her skirt as she sat in the booth Kathy stare back at the man across from her. Jared fixed his moustache and sipped his matcha, strange choice for a man to order Kathy thought but she kept her opinions to herself as the green foam kept covering his top lip.

“So, you just moved here?” Jared asked.

Kathy stirred her iced coffee with the straw, paralyzed by the simple question. The though...

Stepping back from the altar Candace nearly tripped. Forgetting the sizeable gap in between the floor and the raised altar. Catching herself on a pew she was met with a loud creak. Yet in her hands was some book. Careful to not drop it onto the marbled graveyard. It was heavy though. Each page felt like it was moving or writhing as she clutched it. Yet the dullness of the church around her remain ...

I’ve needed a dramatic rain soaked kiss 

On my lips, to water and revive the garden of romance that lives in my heart, ever since I can remember. 

Since the day I became a teenager.

Hands around my ears, the fingers splitting to hold my lobes.

I need the downpour on me and a lip on mine more than I need my lungs to expand and deflate like a red balloon.

Why oh why, must I make it my whole bei...

Max woke to the torturous echo of his alarm clock. The numbers always being off but that was something to be fixed later, wasn’t it? Narroly acoiding the plethora of water bottles and fast food cups that surrounded said clock on his nightstand he sat up. Feeling the crumbs that made home in his sheets at his ankles as he removed said cover and stood up, facing the late afternoon in just a t-shirt....

Jada picked up her fork off the table and stabbed down at her Alfredo. The frail table trembling at the tremor of her piercing blows, Alex immediately noticed this.

“I wonder when your food will get here haha.” Jada said, the creamy sauce slipping out the corners of her mouth.

Avoiding contact with the nastiness that was Jada’s face while eating Alex said

“By the time it gets here it feels like...

With my pale feet hugged by pink plastic and rubber, swinging hundreds of feet above a zoo or multicolored lights, I took a breath.

The bench seat of this ferris wheel was extremely cold, juxtaposing the increasing humidity that haunted the air of the small beach town.

And I found myself focusing on the ant like figures beneath me.

Searching their colony for the familiar figure of you.

And your ...

There’s a key created. 

To kickstart the engine that is my heart. 

Yet now I find myself. 

Beneath a yellow hued stoplight in this midnight parking lot. 

Patting my pockets, and my bag for it. 

No familiar jingle is heard.

And now my body floods with nerves. 

Will I be trapped? 

In this field of tar and pale lemon lines. 

To my saving.

A large shadow appears to be approaching. 

Turning my head ov...

I finished typing on my computer composing an email to my boss asking if there was anything I might need to catch up on while I was off for the weekend when I checked the date. It was 4th of July weekend.

“Honey! Did you realize it’s 4th of July this weekend?” I called to Amanda who was in her room down the hall.

Quickly she stumbled into my room bursting through the door.

“Shit, no I didn’t. ...

Tussled brown hair and freckles spread all over the young boy’s face as he look at himself in the reflection of a puddle. Icarus was a beautiful young angel. His ivory garbs that covered his thin and muscular body flowed in the wind, but that was to be expected as Icarus stood outside the temple. Clutching his golden bow he stepped away from the puddle, knowing it wasn’t good to focus too much on ...

If only I put my phone down.

To stop and turn left.

To view upon the entire axis I ignore.

A moment away from the blue light that haunts my retinas,

To give it that same ocean colored light, from a different sized square.

Or to handle the wheel of an automobile,

yet many dont’t put that screen down for that,

And look where they are.

To stare at those with wrinkles,

my attention bringing...