Flash

February 20, 2023

You mutter “Fuck you” under your breath at his daily counting routine, for the apathy it shows for the hell the world is girdled in.

February 15, 2023

He would sometimes repeat it under his breath. Chops, have to have chops, have to have chops.

February 13, 2023

I liked existing in peripheries. I imagined myself stuck deeply in mud and drowned and decaying but still there, still part of the river.

February 8, 2023

Mom counted five full-length films of him sensually posing in Late American Empire formal wear in different promote-me positions.

February 1, 2023

A newspaper reporter is writing an article about the head on the stick. How it mysteriously appeared one day.

January 30, 2023

The baby gurgled and mawed. After getting passed to the last teller, he screamed a pitch so high I covered my ears.

January 23, 2023

List To-Dos. Vent secret frustrations. Compose abominable poems. Dream impossible fantasies.

January 18, 2023

As our postcoital conversations pushed us further and further away from each other, I lounged in his bed, nibbling on a melting L or Q or F.

January 16, 2023

It happens more than a person might think, animals in the house. Squirrels nest in a closet, a rat snake curls up in the tub.

January 11, 2023

But as I looked through the photos, I grew more and more angry. The actor who played Wolverine wasn’t in any of them.