I was in a fiery lit room. Between sturdily latched elevated steel doors and a heavily smoked inland.I stomped over a pavement. Red patches on the floor. The lower lane…
No one mocks a task, come noon.At first they labelled him a kook, but with time Our Dad has come to be loved, exalted, deified. His tenet that beauty lay…
Falling. Slipping. Descending.You awoke to a lukewarm gnawing at your stiff memory. You knew you were on air, falling, perhaps to hell. But when you placed your palms down, you…
All they wanted was water. The one thing their money could not afford. They roamed from city to city. They scavenged the jungles and wilderness. In the desert they painted…
I'd always known he loved her more and I'd grown to accept things as they were. I was not surprised when he died a week ago and left her everything;…
Hospital BedsWe hang on everything. On branches disconnected from stems and leaning on walls. Like lolling tongues hanging at mouth corners. We have an abode. Billions of us. We leap…
The Satellite CharmerA polyharmony in B minor rang from a violin of space dust, drawing an undulating ♫ on the void from a tense string. “Sirius exploded at your birth,” his…
Restricted AreaI lick away the blood from the gash on my hand, press harder against the barbed wire fence. Blood. Pain. They help me feel alive. Every day I stand…
An electrifying thrill radiated down my spine. Vengeance pirouetted in my heart. Two years of meticulous planning! This deception culminated to the intended climax. Nothing seemed more satisfying than musing…
It is a kiss that blows away in the wind: her high heels clip up the train stairs, she looks me in the eye, then the shadow of her arm flung from…