my mom tells me that she has talked to the managers and i can have the space i choose. i am given a list of available apartments and i choose the 47th floor without even looking at the place first. when i move in it is a huge carpeted place. i dance around in the […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Getting settled in our new home. Arriving there and discovering that it is nothing but cement and latex paint. we move in anyway because we’re starting out on our own and it’s what we can get. i stand in the bedroom door while he’s talking to me and i notice hannah chasing something. it’s a […]
