**Birds circled overhead, denoting the finality of Elmer’s last miserable exhalation. However, even once the lungs stopped sucking and the blood coagulated in his veins, he still stared skyward with dry redend eyes at the birds that signified death descending slowly upon him. He felt the wind, he felt the sun. He felt the ants marching over him, and the flies nesting in his mouth. He felt all of t...

Jenny, oh how I love you. Your tender, soft skin and warm embrace have never let me down or delivers me disappointment. Oh how I will miss you Jenny, you always listened and never interrupted. You never left my side be it in bed, or the kitchen, the shower, the living room couch, and even the yard that one time.

You have always been an excellent travel companion and the long road will be much har...

What you see as cracks in the surface of what could be a perfect porcelain portrayal of wholeness and beauty, I see as the details I would never erase cover or diminish. All art has flaws and it's the only art I can love, a canvas with out mistakes is one without character and meaning, you are beauty incarnate, your mere existence inspires the creation of works in your likeness although they are c...

“Well, shit.” -J

“No fucking doy Jerry, we are in a colon!” -S

“Sam, I bet this shit goes on for miles.”-J

“What, are you trying to be funny?! I would laugh but it literally goes on for miles while we are this size. I mean, are you fucking kidding me with this shit, this literal shit, what did you expect, a fucking coffee stand?! I told you we should have gone in through the nose, there’s a lot...

When I look in the mirror it is not myself that I see but something else. The glass feels more like a barrier that one can see through than an object ment for vanity.

I feel the gaze of something that shares my appearance but not my intent, a creature wholly sinister and hungry for fear and pain. I sense that if I look too long into the eyes we share I will be lost there with the holder on the ot...

I am lost, I am lost, I am lost… **The message keeps repeating from an intercom somewhere in the sky, and I can't help but agree with the message. I am lost. This all started several weeks ago at a bonfire party deep in the woods. A few of the guys from work and I, along with their significant others, partners, flings, and so on, were simply trying to have a good night out away from city life and ...

I have been many things in this life, but a bad father never crossed my mind as a label that I would have to accept. My wife was brutally murdered in a wrong place, wrong time situation amidst the fog of infidelity and a fling in the worst cliche of a motel one could conjure to thought. It was an intentional b and e but whether or not the junkie had intended to commit a double homicide is far from...

I look toward the horizon, my mind is both at ease and wrought with a paralyzing terror. Hints of hopelessness and an air of cosmic insignificance accompany this feeling. I am both consumed by and liberated from this feeling. My fear comes from the anticipation of the unknown, yet knowing the end is near, whether it is nothing or something stranger, I stand resolute and content in the face of my d...

“You are absolutely without a doubt a defenestrated plucked chicken, with no ham, and no business deliberating the newspaper whilest sitting in my tushy cushion!”

Well that settled it. Ted was officially done with his coffee now. “What?” Ted said in response confused and somewhat shaken.

“I said you are only human by Plato’s depiction of a person! You featherless bipedal poultry thumb, with to...

Her father takes her to work in the medicine cabinet jeny dies as she is pulled and forced into a cabinet that couldn't hold a three year old let alone her once the rotting corpse of her father reaches her and grabs her hand it was all over before I could act in any meaningful way before he arrived she appeard to almost go into a trance pacing farther and farther from the camp fire mumbling about ...