standing in our front yard at night. noticing the gray stripes of large snakes taking over the yard. i point them out to a friend and we go inside. trying to clean up our home. our relationship has reached a level of dysfunction that is visible to all who walk in. his kid doesn’t even […]
Tag: move
Andrea has moved to a new apartment. It’s several flights up and has a view of the Lake. I don’t know what to say to her, we’re all supposed to send her something. So I send clip art of a red house with a blue roof hopping away toward water and a happy green tree […]
i move into a different apartment. this one is in a high-rise. in the hallway going to the elevator i see amanda. she’s calling for help because a man is in her apartment in the same building. she says she was trying to be nice but he won’t leave and she doesn’t want to be […]
standing on stone steps in a city that feels like it is indoors. there is water running down the steps in a slow shallow waterfall, smooth as glass it diverts around my sneakers. they say the city is moving. they have to. it’s too wet. i think this is ridiculous. the green planes atop the […]
some kind of fair or block party. there is a xeroxed giant bee floating in the sky and a sign saying to watch for the doofus dad. people bring lawn chairs to watch. sure enough, as a crowd runs away toward the parking lot, a man in a fishing hat carrying chairs and a cooler […]
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 […]
we’re going to bake a pie or something but first we need to find the required tools: levels, T-squares, wrenches. we have replaced the online stock images for “refugee” with the face of a white man. if everyone who sees stories of refugees sees a white man as the victim, maybe they’ll do something to help. […]
