• Ishigaki

    “This is just like what our ancestors went through at Ellis Island” I tell my crying son, tucked away in his rip-stop hiking papoose among the milk and dry diapers as we snake through the customs office Off for a day of fun in the sun, the last port of call on a seven day…

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  • My Demons

    I have a friend who knows a girl he calls his sister Thank god I didn’t let anyone like that linger around  I chased my demons away long ago With my penis out Hey come back, take a look at this I yelled As the sounds of their cloven hoof-falls rang out further and further…

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  • I’m designing a solarpunk TTRPG setting, and after one session quick brainstorm have the a few tables. I’ll keep adding to this project when I get time to write, so if you’re interested, come back and check later!

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  • The Destructive Power of Oxygen

    Fire needs oxy- oh, the nib broke off my pen. Ahh, now it’s spilling ink all over the page No matter, I suppose, ultimately that’s where the ink was going anyway.

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  • Part IPart II DIRECTION: We cut to Mr. Choi speaking with Dr. Lockie in the psychiatry office. DOCTOR: So you’re telling me, Mr. Choi, that you had a dream where everyone else had on different shoes, but you had on these, these fluffy ones that everyone has always worn? MR. CHOI: Yes doctor, well, no;…

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  • My mom and dad lived in a small house in Harpersville Alabama when I was born. I can remember snippets- the sharp edge of the concrete porch, the carpeted living room opening up the kitchen, a woman with red hair. She must be my mom. There’s no sense of motion or narrative, just snapshots. We…

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  • An old door

    An old door

    It’s been gone now for about fifteen years, but there used to be a door at the top of a set of three concrete stairs to a little stoop traced on two and a half sides with black painted twisted wrought iron rails at the edges. On either side of the door sat a chair…

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  • A little girl steps onto the subway to ride home alone for the very first time. She wears a disheveled school uniform, and an old man gives her his dark blue priority seat. She pulls a Rubik’s cube out of her backpack and inspects it. Minutes pass as the train goes from stop to stop.…

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  • I’m running through the Artist’s way, almost through week four. No reading allowed this week! I’m about halfway through Infinite Jest, and do 100 pages per week, so not reading has freed up a ton of time. To modernize the challenge,I’m also doing no YouTube and no podcasts. Headphones are for music (and zoom calls)…

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  • The Gossamer Web Part II

    Leather shoes? Now there’s an idea. I suppose my kid would wear something like that for Halloween though, but I don’t have time for dress up or games.

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