i’ve been staying up too late and eating junk so i’m surprised when the coach says i can leave the house to rent a movie. we need something new and funny or gross. we’ve all been working hard in that house and i haven’t been fighting with anyone at all. it’s not easy. but soon […]
Tag: red
Planning on sneaking into a high class party that we’re not invited to. Possibly to scam someone, possibly just to pretend we belong. I don’t have anything to wear but Molly offers me a dress. It’s packaged like a barbie doll, a red silky thing with spaghetti straps in a clear plastic box. i tell […]
standing outside looking out at fjords. everything is tinted green as if i’m looking through darkened windows but i’m not. it’s very eerie. my driver approaches and gets in the car without saying anything. ah, it’s this guy again. he doesn’t talk much. i get in the car and the roads are crazy like the […]
a knight pulls back the curtain and i know i’m about to be captured. it’s not a knight in shining armor kind of knight. more like a zelda stout knight just obeying orders. they are rounding up all the women and holding them behind walls. i won’t be one of them. i have no weapon. […]
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 […]
stepping into a large music hall. it’s a church i walked through in 1999. the one with the cafe and garden right next to where the tour guide told us about the stinking dead under the floor. there are pianos on both sides of the red carpet. they are from all over the world. some […]
we are here to vote either for or against a new election. we are given what looks like popcorn balls, styrofoam seed pods. when you split them open children’s colorful refrigerator magnets are inside. they aren’t letters, they’re symbols. to vote for trump, you use any of the red magnets. some of the reds are […]