Living a pretty ideal life. Supportive partner, separate homes, stable careers. At some point I am my teenage son. I’ve fallen asleep in the treehouse inside the condo of my mother’s partner’s home. I wake up in the wee hours of the night and don’t want him to think that I am a burglar when […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Seth finds me in an abandoned rusty car parked under a tree in a field. he’s on his way to deliver food. i get out and we embrace. i’m so freaking happy to see him after all these years. but we have no time to catch up. he gives me a $20 bill and tells […]
in a house, staring out the window at the most beautiful trees i have ever seen. fire trees. they look like living menorahs (with 5 flames instead of 7). each flame, a huge orange-to-yellow leaf standing on end and glowing in the setting sun. i ask john how he could ever live anywhere else, this […]
at the doctor. it’s a second story room, all white, with a large window in it where i can see green leaves in the sunlight. she looks at my blood test results and tells me there’s something about them that’s troubling her. one of my numbers is off. i look at it. where it should […]
my little sister is in a hallway. she’s showing me her fishing rod. it has a glowing lure on the line and her shirt glows also. it says something in glowing words but now i can’t remember what. i tell her it’s stupid, that she messes up everything and isn’t that special. she’s really hurt […]
in a movie theater watching the super bowl on the side wall. on the actual movie screen in the front is a preview for a movie that will be shown after the football game. it’s a Steve Martin dramedy combined with something like Legend. we live in a post-apocalyptic world so this is the only […]
ann is showing me the wedding invitations. she wants to make sure they are alright. they are so very ugly. pads of thin yellow and pink ruled paper, like those that came in cheap 80’s notebook sets, cut into cutesie shapes that unfold like paper dolls. the paper is so thin the ink from the […]
i’m looking at a class i want to register for. it’s with a professor i like and they are reading a book that i’ve always wanted to read but i don’t need the class and i’ll be home with my family for part of the term. will i be able to read 1,080 pages if […]
