Short Story
Existential Crisis No. 13: The Nail Salon
“Hello.” “You will not believe the experience I just had at that nail place.” “Oh, God. Which one?” “The one on sixth. I honestly don’t even know where to start it is so insane. I’ll try to be quick because my phone is at six percent. So I walk in and the entire place is […]
How To Become an Astronaut
As a child, spend hours on your grandparents’ porch, at their farmhouse, gazing up at a dark sky covered with stars. They will be spread so densely and in such fine particles that it will look like flour spread on a cobalt countertop. Try to count them, but only until you are old enough to […]
All the Ways He Won’t Die
“Someday he’ll meet a fate I didn’t think of, and that will be my fault, too.”
If He Had Been Asked
David’s world moved into slow motion as the suspect fired his pistol. If he had been asked, David would have sworn he had seen the bullet exit the chamber. That he had watched as it sailed serenely through the empty space between, and kill his partner Detective Robert Samuel. He would have told a judge […]
Catching Butterflies Inside
Joanna is fourteen going on twenty-one that’s why it’s ok to be bad. Allie is bad too and so is Ursula. Joanna doesn’t know if Z is good or not. Joanna does know that her parents are good though. She knows that they love her because they say so. They believe saving the world is […]
Train Wreck While Fleeing
Everything seemed like a metaphor, as if I was a teenager or a poet.
The suicidal tendencies of my neglected notebook
My notebook wrote this to me recently…