(Day 47) Mental Liquidation
“Thank you,” I say as I stand smoothly out of my chair. The weight of ceiling starts to make the structure we’re in groan as I bring my attention upwards. I…
The Roof
The Roof is not easy to get to by accident. You have to take the Elevator to the Theater Room, then backstage you will find a portal that takes you to the hair…
End
I open my eyes and up above me I see the sky, plain and black. Silence is all around me, and no one is rushing to my side to help. Maybe I am already dead. I…
Painting the Roof
One fifteen in the afternoon of a hot July day, David scampered up the rickety old ladder carrying a six pack of Coors beer. His brother, Allen, was brushing…
A Million Delicious Little Pieces
Honestly, we’ve all done it. Because our lives are so busy, so fast and we have so little time for patience, we multi-task, multi-carry, and multi-function. If…
Open the Window
If they could do it, why couldn’t he? Seething with jealousy, he would watch them soar through the sky. Every beat of their wings, every groundward swoop…
Egg drop
This was the worst day of his life. The other kids were excited, running around, pointing out the key features of their designs. One after another they all…
Dinner and Wine
Danvers holds the bottle until he sees the woman and then puts it down as she approaches because he wants to free his hand she kisses him aggressively on the…
Blackbird
He was one of many to first receive the apparatus. He had taken the full 18 months, but they told him that was good; it told them how to improve it for the…