July 2022 – Page 3 – cereal after sex

The salt and pepper scruff on his face was uneven, choppy like a soured sea, as if he had used… Read more.

Nihilistic Karma

I was sipping nihilistic karma from a chipped cup on a hillside overlooking a rainy funeral dirge Read more.

Gracelyn Polk sat at her desk in the middle of her world history classroom at Cabbage Junction Primary School. She… Read more.

Gracelyn Polk sat in the Cabbage Junction Public Library reading about the Napoleonic Wars from an old, oversized book. Read more.

I floated above the road from out of LipLock, Tejas earlier in the day and headed north, then east. I… Read more.

In a pink and salty green desert town in one of the new states, adobe Spanish churches thrust their steeples… Read more.

The mercury red was dripping through the lights of the downtown bars – it was blood running through rainbows and… Read more.

I sat in the broken window and looked out onto the burnt grass and the weeds; the sun was gone,… Read more.

And there’s a manic man behind a typewriter, his heart in his hands, sweating away in this disillusioned reality fantasy Read more.

His eyes stained this townon a sunny autumn daylike leaves dropping from his eyescrunchy, veiny tears that smelled of winter… Read more.

After 37 beers and a carton of Strikes, down there below those swirling, curling lights of the Piccadilly-like carnival on… Read more.