i’m being examined to see if i’m ready to move out into the world, out of this monastery. i’m a 12 year old boy in robes. i know all of the answers. but when they ask me the last question they hand me a red book with light pen scratches on the yellowed pages and […]
Category: april
sitting in an open space office in a skyscraper. there are crashes and rumbles of thunder. the building is being buffeted with wind and storm but we work through it like we always do. when the building starts to sway i tell my coworkers “this is what an earthquake feels like.” a woman agrees. she’s […]
i lost a phone. not the phone i use. an old phone. a ghost phone. the first cell phone i ever had. i insist we go back and look for it but the girls following say that they looked everywhere behind me and it wasn’t there. on the tv a news anchor is reporting a […]
in a World Market type store. we’ve been allowed to shop today. the things we’re allowed to get are limited and will be inspected. but it’s a treat nonetheless. we giggle and imagine and play down the aisles. sexangary made a piece of art that she finds for sale there. it’s a deep wooden frame […]
trapped in a capitol building. i make several attempts to escape. we’re not being tortured, but we don’t want to be sent home. there are logic puzzles and word puzzles to figure out. when people get them wrong they are sucked out into space. eventually i answer enough questions right using the little old norse i […]
vague memory of snakes entering the house being at Sandy’s in an empty room. the only piece of furniture is a pump piano made of some light wood, complete with an upper hutch. sandy is saying that they are going to throw it out unless someone gives it a home. i flip up the key cover […]
jane is placing a hidden camera in the hotel room. i see her licking her lips as she mounts the camera high in a corner of the room. we’re going to catch a coworker in a lie. we know he’s a traitor. someone else we work with is his friend and she’s agreed to set […]
a time slip of some sort. telling a friend that i have to go back to my old apartment because i need to clean out the rest of my stuff before my lease runs out at the end of the month. thinking i have a week left and my friend telling me i’ve been in […]
walking to a small brick school in a row of town homes. the army rushes in wearing SWAT gear. i take the first left turn once inside and run up the stairs. i hide behind a partition and put a chair in front of me. i know they’re not there for me, that they’re there […]
hiking alone at night over frozen snow. when i reach my destination (a place where the starlight makes the snow glow blue-white) i look up to see the star in a moonless sky. i find it easily, burning much brighter than any other star. i see it oscillating up there and remember my history lesson. […]
