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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In a tiny diner, looking at a menu with my ex and his new partner. they tell me that the meal is included in the trip, but that it only covers two meals. i paid for the trip, but i let them have a nice dinner alone. he yells at me to stay as i’m […]
Hannah having trouble breathing when on her side, but ok when she’s on her belly. Wishing I could do more for her. Promising I won’t leave her. Driving by a field and seeing my grandpa walking toward the road, looking to be in great health. Feeling near tears because we can’t stop to see him. […]
sitting on a couch at a low-key party. facing a tv with a staircase to our right. the woman next to me explains that she and her husband had another person in their relationship for a while but it didn’t work out. her husband nods and says that he was fine with having another person […]
standing on a beach with a nun wearing all white. she tells me that the woman out in the waves has been crying for me the whole time. i can see myself in a hospital bed, head wrapped, faced bloodied and beaten, drugged and in a coma. i’m embarrassed that she has seen me in […]
sitting on a long couch with several others. a man enters the room with a gift bag and sits down at the opposite end. he pulls out the gift inside and asks us for our opinion. it’s a collection of three perfumes with nature names, sea mist and such. he says he got them for […]
i made it through to the finals of American Ninja Warrior fairly easily. there were five of us competing, 3 women and 2 men. i suspected that this round was made intentionally easy so that a few chicks would make it through for ratings, but it turned out that i was the only one of […]
i lost a phone. not the phone i use. an old phone. a ghost phone. the first cell phone i ever had. i insist we go back and look for it but the girls following say that they looked everywhere behind me and it wasn’t there. on the tv a news anchor is reporting a […]
on a blanket in the grass on a hill or a cliff. my family is there. we’re eating, drinking, and waiting for some astronomical event. there’s a wall to my left that doesn’t connect to anything. it’s the inside wall of my first apartment after college. someone has left a glass of water unattended and […]
a hotel of glass. a conference for magicians. pushing laura’s van off of a pier and into the ocean as a favor to her. a friend of hers pointing out as it started to sink that they had already set the engine on fire. watching the hood on fire, watching it get closer to the […]
