Keyboards
Find middle C, I told myself. I should be able to remember at least that. My fingers can find their way through a C+ scale. But I don’t remember how to do a D…
The End of The Beginning
It should be raining. The world should stop. Every being on this earth should stop what he or she is doing and join everyone in a planet-wide moment of…
Escape.
When the tears pool inside my eyes, it burns my contacts. Natural tears shouldn’t feel this way - but the way my heart is pounding makes my eyes throb and…
On the Scene, Ready for It
A battered pick-up ferried Doctor Wonder to the disaster in progress, driven by a pair of well intentioned citizens eager for their hero to arrive in a timely…
Let's Rewind (Ramblings, Part 5)
I constantly find myself wanting to go back. I want to change the past upon the basis of current knowledge, to live in a nostalgic utopia where happiness is…
An Unsent Message (Ramblings, Pt. 1)
As I laid in bed, hopelessly reminiscing, I thought about how it would go. It wouldn’t be an ultimatum, but it would sure as hell feel like one, and an unjust…
Let's Play in the Leaves
He knew how much I loved autumn. The window was open because I needed to smell it. The crispy air of fall danced through the room, throwing up the sheet and…
Thoughts On An Anxious Lover
Last summer I thought I kissed the doubts right from your chapped lips. I could have sworn I did, but tonight you rolled over in bed to face the wall, curling…
Thoughts On Family Problems
An emergency broadcast drones through my town every Saturday morning, and while it alarmed me the first time, I pay no attention to it now. It blares through…
Spiral
Blaise had died a year ago today. And it was all her fault, she told herself. After his death, she became a new person, a mere shell of the bold, outgoing girl…
Emergence
You take my hand. You pull. I emerge. In time we see little reason not to hold one another. We look at the wall and we can see my former chamber. We cannot see…
Rat in the Wall
You hear a scratching behind your wall. A quick succession of images come to mind: what can it be? Nobody ever has broken through the ramparts you’ve built to…
Drill
I examine this drill. I know how it works, in theory. I have never tried to use it, though. It is time to try. But what does it look like? My life, my mind…
Our Caves
We live in caves, you and I, dark and cramped and damp. They are where we live, but we never call them home. Drilled into the face of the cliff and opening…
Of Dough and Dreams
“Hello, friend.” I didn’t raise my head to acknowledge the voice. There wasn’t any way that someone could be there. Therefore this had to be a dream or…
Depression
the heavy feeling like ankle weights slowly holding you down not enough to tell someone just enough where you don’t want to do anything or go anywhere a…
Sometimes It's Too Much To Ask For
We all have these days where even rolling over in bed seems like a heroic task to conquer, another mountain to climb in the meantime. My dim clock told me it…
Frantic Messages
Forgive me, something went wrong and my hand slipped and before I knew it my skin was falling off my bones too quick for comfort. I don’t know how to stop this…
Do Not Follow In His Footsteps
There is always a way out, my friend, no matter how bleak the path seems. The rooftop will not console you, the pavement is not your escape. Do not listen to…
Just a Funk
Is it even worth it? you ask, your head lifting a fraction of an inch from its place in your hands. I don’t answer right away, a little shocked you brought…