No matter how I try my hair won’t grow back. The power’s gone out, someone saw wires arcing down the block. We find a lantern in the garage that still casts enough light. The time is never right but this is probably not the time to say it. Something’s burning in the house, […]
White Rainbow
The army held the baby in chains. It broke free. It was quite easy. At 158 feet high, it towered over the army and its tanks. It tore the metal wrapped around its wrists and legs with its eight baby teeth. The baby wobbled toward the freight train yard, as it liked trains, liked the […]
The Bureau of Hards
One year at summer camp, I met a girl who told me about all the different things she’d managed to send, unpackaged, through the US Postal Service. I sorely wish I remembered her litany of unexpected items. The one thing I do recall is that she had once addressed a shoe, a Converse All-Star, she […]
Welcome to Warehouse
Floorworker I thought: I like taking pictures. Facilitating the fulfillment of others’ image-making could be an honest way to make a decent living. It’s tangential to my interests at best, but at least I could feign interest, more so than at the interview with the editorial department of the luxury magazine with photo spreads devoted […]
