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Alone
“We live as we dream: alone...” --- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Lost....the realisation strikes deep... The endless trees are like bars of a…
Blackstar Blues
I bust in the door and she fills my belly with buckshot. What a thot, useless thot; I grab my wound and sink to my knees. The sides of my black…
“Practice Makes,” “Cultivate One’s Own Garden,” and “Under Lucky Stars”
Practice Makes Hard-landing on the American continent, the space craft from the Enlightenment cracks along the United States. A dreamed more perfect…
Jarry Doors Exits the School, Part 1
I. The rain was ceaseless in the town of Calve Junction. “You could say the gangly one touched you,” said the one with the blonde hair and sunken…
6 to 6: Red Bull Blues
He gets in the cab outside the apartment complex. He’s maybe 25 years old. His fingernails are long and filthy and he’s wearing $90 jeans. "Take me…
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 4
X. Many of us who have spent time in 12-step or similar programs have come across the “martyr” personality. This person’s desire to clean up…
Odyssey
Mother rushed me across the country after Daddy tried to send me away to boarding school. Commit her or at least send her away for being a bad…
Blood, Gunpowder, and Plasma
The desert was rarely cool. But it was a cool night when Bobby Lucas found his life changed forever. Storms were brewing, layers upon layers of grey…
“Strands,” “The Relationship Will Not Be Resumed,” and “At the Marriage Counselor’s Office”
Strands Strands of hair led me to find you in your bedroom--- small and seeming smaller for your invisible body, burrowed head in an array of……
Love You, Zyra, Part 2
IV. Closer. We caught a bus that took us into the foothills of the Pamirs. By now, I’d gone quite native and had put on my all-purpose Islamic grey…
