Monthly Archives: April 2014
Where we’re bound to end up…
She leans her head against the wall, feeling the slipsoft scratch of tangled curls between scalp and surface. She frowns, and reaches up, now and then, to touch, but her hands are muffled, and the gesture is halted partway there, … Continue reading
Wishes
Somewhere, somewhen, near a corner of 42nd and 8th, some kitty-corner blocks from Times Square, in the midst of Hell’s kitchen, with buses, cabs, trucks, and cars rolling by, hundreds of people pounding the pavement, walking by, looking at the … Continue reading
Flashes
All the places she’s searched for him, she’s been alone. All the windows she’s climbed in, no analogue to greet her. All the phone numbers she’s called, there’s been no answer. Billions of other people walking the street and she … Continue reading
You Think
This is just to say if you think you’re so much better than me, love, if you think you’re so much wiser than me, love, if you think you’re so much more than me, love, I think you’ve got to … Continue reading
Return 21
Our Captain dreamt. In the red dark, he walked in the footsteps of those before him. He walked in his own footsteps. He saw the Desolation, the Central City, the sprawling tides of the dead, the skeletal faces of those … Continue reading