We’re in some sort of pagan community. My little sister is there. It’s half campground and half abandoned neighborhood. Some of the homes are under water in a flooded valley where we want to swim. My sister wants to go swimming while the radio station is broadcasting from the water. I’m excited to show off […]
Category: march
there’s a ghost haunting the campus. friends are discussing the latest victim. the ghost always wants the same thing, but you have to stay sane through it all or he’ll just keep coming back. i’m curious about what it wants. my friends explain and i volunteer as tribute. “so this ghost guy is going to […]
going into my bedroom. the whole apartment is empty. but the floors open up and my bed is hidden there.
i came home and hannah was dead but i gave her cpr and she revived and was totally fine. and i had to go through a haunted house for work to get insurance credits. and you could get extra wellness points if you identified who the person was behind the mask of some terrible impression […]
sitting with friends on a couch. we’re arguing about healthcare. someone needs birth control and we’re trying to explain that they can get a gyne exam at a catholic hospital but they won’t write a script for the pill. it’s different where she’s from so she doesn’t understand. me and the boys shrug. we decide […]
running to class. taking a shortcut i remember like muscle memory in this UK city. i go into a building and take a narrow winding stone staircase up to a bridge that will bring me across the street to the second level of another building. but this bridge is freaking ancient. the sides have mostly […]
folding newspaper strips into chain lace for our wedding. the way mom used to do with wrigley gum wrappers. bringing my fiancée to see my hometown which is all indoors like a giant mall. my mother is supportive but the community is not. they pass me around the school gymnasium on a chair made of […]
sitting in the back of my dad’s old jeep, he’s talking to a friend he’s just met. we’re in france for one of his conferences that i hate. bored out of my mind and annoyed by the male conservativism that rules these places. this guy is going on and on. “God’s money?! Ha!” he scoffs, […]
living in my last apartment with my suburban upper class generic dream family. we see a neighbor woman acting a little strange. she’s wearing a mask and peeking into our windows. we know her, she can come over any time. and then it appears as if she falls. she’s super pregnant so I, a teenage […]
stacks of sleds. students planning a skiing trip. college kids raiding the freezer of their Mother. She’s got the head and torso of an egg, humpty dumpty style. Her abdomen and thighs are curtains tied back, a belt buckle is a disproportionately small window. Her knees and calves are sticks. Her feet are conjoined mermaid fins. […]
