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Dandelions

Dandelions

Dandelions Kurt sat cold at the end of his driveway, a bowl of sugary offerings for the children settled in his lap. He treasured Halloween, but the festivity was winding down. Night had completely fallen. Most of the children and parents had come and gone. Parents with children dressed as pirates and superheroes and princesses, […]

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams I’m intrigued by certain correlations. Sometimes I’m struck by bits of information and try to fit them together like pieces of a puzzle. The human puzzle, I guess you could (pretentiously) say. One of these bits is the obsession with the Cadillac Escalade. Heck, I probably shouldn’t care. There’s better things to think […]

The Gamble

The Gamble

The Gamble Fitzi went all in on four Queens/8 high. Jimmy beat him with a straight flush of hearts. He raked Fitzi’s chips into his pile. “You buying back in?” Jimmy asked. Jimmy had all the luck. It confounded Fitzi because Jimmy didn’t appear to be much of a man of God. He didn’t even […]

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat There’s an online petition to stop lab-grown meat from being served in schools. When I heard about it, I needed to know more. The petition lists reasons why serving lab-grown meat in schools is a bad idea. These reasons are kind of boring, so I scrolled down to where people have posted videos […]

Fingernails

Fingernails

Fingernails Sometimes, when I cross the line to Indiana, I stop at Howie’s truck stop diner for a pork tenderloin sandwich. See, I was born and raised in Indiana. Now I live just across the state line. But, because I’m a Hoosier by birth, when I go over to Indiana and pass by Howie’s, I […]

Category: poetry

Praying for Hate
poetry

Praying for Hate

Praying for Hate depression maybe just the realism in nihilism has sapped the flavor out of everything zero calorie fucking … Continue reading Praying for Hate

The New Girl
poetry

The New Girl

The New Girl the new girl will be gorgeous or ugly as a dog or something else in between the … Continue reading The New Girl

Evil is What It Needs to Be
poetry

Evil is What It Needs to Be

Evil is What It Needs to Be the beauty of evil is its mass in the abstract and its ghostliness … Continue reading Evil is What It Needs to Be

Contrast
poetry

Contrast

Contrast some people see everything in high contrast some people see everything in low contrast most people prefer seeing themselves … Continue reading Contrast

Innocence
poetry

Innocence

Innocence imagining ourselves reborn into innocence absolved of all sin the silly whims of a bird dreaming of wingless featherless … Continue reading Innocence

Bars and Chains
poetry

Bars and Chains

Bars and Chains we are nothing more than the chains locks and bars that without condition imprison our hearts minds … Continue reading Bars and Chains

Holiday Blues
poetry

Holiday Blues

Holiday Blues tonight i drown my sins in beer and pretense just like you drown your sins today yesterday tomorrow … Continue reading Holiday Blues

Mother’s Keeper
poetry, stories

Mother’s Keeper

Mother’s Keeper her mother leered across the street with envy as the children and grandchildren of her neighbor raucously came … Continue reading Mother’s Keeper

Bloodhounds
poetry

Bloodhounds

Bloodhounds attuned focused like bloodhounds on a manhunt for finding excuses for never becoming what we ever only wistfully profess … Continue reading Bloodhounds

Acid & Snakes
poetry

Acid & Snakes

Acid & Snakes the psychenaut offered the hillbilly snake handler a tab of acid explaining how he’d see and experience … Continue reading Acid & Snakes

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