January 2009
11 posts
"fabricated responses"
i may return. may? yeah. hopefully not, though. why’s that? because. because why? because if i don’t then it’ll have all worked out. what? everything. everything? yeah. everything. the plan, the stakes, everything i set up. everything i gambled on. everything. but what if it doesn’t? then i’ll come back. we’ve already established that. oh. yeah. well, i hope you...
seagulls'
“think about scandal. think about a mother’s love.” the time when his father passed out on the couch, unknowingly locking us out of the house until his mother came home, spent from an unsupportive job, hours after the neighborhood went to sleep, and took what might be considered illegal to some people. “shit happens” says the tacked up calender hanging inside the...
"love it would be much better"
“i’ve known for a few weeks now,” he started, bringing a cigarette to his lips, igniting the tip with a quick flip of his finger. “the fact that it’s true really doesn’t make any difference.” her body shifted, a subtle, uncomfortable movement linking the past to a present awkwardness. “so you don’t care?” she asked. “well, i care....
hexafractal spermwhales
two minutes into the future a bomb goes off south of tel aviv in a market square at the break of dawn and children scream for their parents and the fathers beg and pray and bargain for their daughters to be safe while half way across creation a mother drowns her son in the frigid cuyahoga. her prints are latent and the smell of christmas is fresh in the air. newspapers scoop it up like dogshit...
prologue
Lately my brother sleeps in the living room on a brown corduroy sofa that our mother inherited when Grandad passed on. It was the only thing he left her, the only thing she has of his. But it’s more of my brother’s now, I suppose. He started sleeping there about a month ago. “I can’t stay there. I can’t do it anymore,” he’d say of his room, a small spare...
i needed one more
cause that’s the pattern of late. but this is made up. the others, well, they were real. i knew a kid named albert. i knew a girl named stella. actually, i didn’t. or don’t. i don’t know anybody by those names. i did know a kid named nathaniel. he ate the stucko off the sides of houses. we made fun of him for it. he had one kidney. and one time his bladder exploded. this is...
albert navarro
albert navarro was a kid who lived on my street, back when i was more of a kid then a man. he liked birds and trains. his mother would always make him breakfast before class. he’d say, “did your mom make you breakfast?” and i’d say, “i don’t have a mom, asshole.” and he’d go on about his mother’s breakfast and i’d just walk away. i found...
stella bradford
stella bradford jacks you up. she jacks you up three times over and while you’re reeling in confusion she jacks you up again. she’s good at that. she jacks you up while you’re walking down the street in your skinny jeans and moccasins and you don’t know it but she’s jacking you up something good. stella bradford will jack you up without even knowing she’s...
cellafloriskidsamorean terrahaupt
burned bridges for seven ninety-five an hour and one and a half on holidays. says it’s good money. no one wants that job. most people, he says, most people, they get too attached to them. cant carry out the job. but me, i just do it. get it done and dont look back. i figure things gonna burn down anyway. why not do it now? do it and get paid. thats the best part. getting paid for the...
astronaut/cosmonaut
i’d like to find out, sometime in the future, when i die or maybe just through a psychic reading, that i was the reincarnation of yuri gagarin. i think i’d like that very much.
"the spilling out and tumbling of words..."
jim tenenbaum, gentle jimmy t they called him, he lived off of larson and smith just outside of terrence, indiana. he spent most of his time at home with his mother, his sick mother who never really got out of bed save for when she had to do the dirty deeds and jimmy would have to come upstairs and see if mother needed a hand but usually she didnt because she didnt like jim seeing her the way she...