Bowl of triple chocolate ice cream with brownie bits and dark chocolate chunks,
Check; coziest blanket, check; Bonaparte curled tight in his designated sofa, corner double check Bea settled into the opposing corner. Sniffing her comfy Clothes and Murder Shows fuzzy socks, Bonaparte tucked his snout under her ankles.
“Alexa play Meet Marry Murder.”
Haunting familiar strings filled the living ro...
Cotton rag 300lb hot press
hand-dyed hand spun merino
Unravels in mushy loops
spilling stencils, tumbling rubber stamps
thai constellations and white princesses
Spurt in emerald clots
willow charcoal and pale stumps
pencils, pencils, pencils all rinse away
rip off this last bandage
a torrent of purple prose gushes out
soaking my Chuck Taylors
ruining my ironic tee
slice deep the dead and dying
S...
“I remember it perfectly now I was talking to my father, arguing really, about something and that’s when Coach Rand drove past. Dad and I were on a street, a little countrylane no a parking lot. It was definitely a parking lot,” Michelle said.
As she wrestled with the memory, her voice dipped low. Michelle began to writhe in the retro barbershop style chair. The jelly sythn mask that wrapped over...
Is there an expiration date for mothers?
A question not often thought of
Shelf life of some kind or another
Dairy is dated, so why not love
Turning down the dial on feeling
From maternal high to simmering care
Press restart for a heart healing
A respite from refereeing seems fair
Pouring into others, year after year
Love exhausted sours to self hate
Overladen my arms can no longer bear
Spoilt m...
Lanky teen in a heavy black hoodie drifted back and forth in front of the vid coretex gaming controllers, the old man who always wears the maroon skullcap was ruffling his newspaper, a few patrons were tapping away on their laptops in the battered study corrals, Shai, the Community Outreach Coordinatoor, was updating the website, and a gaggle of pre-schoolers were playing up downstairs. Shai consi...
Static reverberated across the control tower. Frantically Bilbao adjust to get a clear message.
“Look I didn’t ask to be picked. None of us did. We have a choice take the mission—you mean suicide mission don’t you Alph?—cool down Beta we can take the mission which will surely result in one or more of our being demaged beyond repair. Or we can try to hide. Don’t cry Delt. You’ll get Charlie start...
“Spaceport Ares West, Controller Bilbao Kurtis, come in unregistered vehicle, report. You are approaching restricted commercial airspace, report.”
Dead air.
“Yo, Mar, I got some weirdness near strip 9A. Check this out. My scanner is picking up five airships small like just hovering. I don’t see the call numbers or any identifiers.”
Chief Space Traffic Controller Margo Delasantos leaned over Kur...
“Greetings, Daniel. May I call you, Dan? Here at Zoltan Celestial the sky is no limit. Welcome to our team, Dan. We know this transition is challenging. As Prisoner 6672089 of Eastern State Pententiary you knew fear and restriction. Now as a valued member of our Away Team you will know a new kind of freedom. Inhale deeply and lean back. Exhale. Excellent. The procedure I assure you is nearly painl...
Sun hot on my back like a baby spotlight, I walk in this wilderness of small houses and squares of the prickliest grass. Birds go quiet.
Squirrels stiff with fear hide in the crotches of trees but I am the one afraid, really afraid. What is this place? Where am I? I miss the comfort of the sawdust and greasepaint. I miss the soft and oily of home.
Today was a travel day. Sister said relax with a...