MARTINEZ The dim light at the wine bar painted mysterious portraits of its visitors. “Make it a double,” he heard her saying. It was her...

ONE JUST HAS TO BE SO VERY CAREFUL Several statues of white angels have gone missing from the Angelenos Cemetery. I had been sleeping in...

LOX, CAPERS, HONEY BUTTER There's faux- Vineyard Grapes up on the wall from when this place was an attempt at a classy Italian restaurant...

THE SCENE IS DEAD I was already dead when I got my revenge. When I had finally driven him to hang himself, I reveled in my victory,...

14 (PLUS) REASONS TO (RE)SET THE CUCKOO CLOCKS just when you think there is nothing more to say, an alarm clock rings, & the small wooden...

OVER TEXT we tell each other the sordid things we want to do to each other and to others while the other watches or catches in the act...

BOY DISEMBODIED IN JUNE It is amazing how full the body is yet it is easily divisible. Basilio Donati Forget your body, boy/ and the way...

BATH FART POEM The bath fart sounded like a note from a Shins song Trying to drown another back ache from a flying double knee drop and...

MOONDUST COOKIES Earth tickles me with a million of her fingers as she dresses me in splotchy green. She rambles in tensed clickety...

REMOTE TEAM USES TEXT-BASED CHAT FOR UNITY AND COHESION Executive Director Natasha: Oops! I accidentally hit the audio option, but we’re...

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN It was back in the Garden when it was just two people, one man, one woman, and there were no jobs because jobs weren’t...

EARLY BIRD Naturally I’m a nightbird but this wintery morning I’m awake before most have got up out with mallards & watching a swan wash...

SOMETHING'S BURNING A black sun dawned over the horizon. Human ashes from the 15 ovens of the crematorium had been scattered as...

V-NECKS AND BEER I took this job to buy v-neck t-shirts and beer. The plant starts at $16 an hour. To stay part-time, I’d lied and said...

INDIE LABEL APPLICANT A punk band named Crackpot Crusade. Song title: "Fuck Your Sins, Kids, for Jesus." In the key of C for Christ...

LEGS NOT REQUIRED FOR HUNTING, MATING The mermaid tosses her head back, exposing her neck to the sun and the wind. Perched uncomfortably...

ROAD CLOSURE: WE WELCOME YOU ROAD CLOSED AHEAD —a bright spot on the side of the hill, steep drop on the other. Add a visual component to...

CLASSICALLY RELAXED, LANDING PUNCHES OUTSIDE THE DREAM by dint of skimmed chance, we mutualize fake far(-off) eastern argot we’re not...

A THIRD CHANCE After his second wife left him, Leo decided to live underwater. At first, it was hard to get used to the dampness. Leo’s...

THREE THINGS, SIMULTANEOUSLY Two things happened simultaneously. The first was the realisation that Paul had made a huge mistake; the...

ERIKA JAYNE WITH ONE HAND ON A BIBLE* No, I did not compare myself to Christ, someone else did and I reposted it. Now everyone can have a...