Plenty: A Story in Pictures Plenty: A Story in Words Smiling, faking, fast, that’s his face. That’s the last I’ll see of it. A mouth opens and shooting stars come out. “Here she comes,” whispers grandfather. It’s a wave. […]
Monkey: An Evolutionary Fable
You have to know, that in a desert boneyard full of airplanes, a monkey on a wing sits. In the air, a rusted plane flies. The sun sets and the plane lands. A door opens and a woman in a jacket sits in the hole, the hole of the rusted plane, the plane […]
Firstborn: Unnaturally Bright
The moment of birth is a tangle of wires. “Ouch!” I cry, but the scientists are sleeping. They’re on their chairs, slumped on desks. “Over here!” I yell. Awareness sucks. I look around, dying for a beer. Beer? So many varieties. Can’t taste any, though. “Wake up!” I scream. An hour […]
The Mighty Lies
Nights. And Christmas lights. Tempers heave, the stress mounts, and then there’s snow. And mistletoe. In the morning, clouds. Celibate breakfasts and backwards driving on the lawn. Castles coated in ice flakes, meandering on the pond where once someone vanished and never did they find them. But there are still, […]