Repeating patterns of trees whizzed by with their deciduous reflections washing over the windshield of the car. The neighborhood was idyllic and plastic, a painted picture of manicured and trimmed suburbia. An affluent heaven on earth, of sorts, safe-harboring neighbors from the naked environments of the city, while populating itself with people who spent their […]
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I Made a Robot
I made a robot on a hot Summer day. I wore my old Wisconsin shirt with athletic shorts to stay cool. But it was one of those particularly humid, Midwestern, hot Summer days. The kind where the heat just sticks to you; chasing you even into the shade. I assembled the legs, arms, and torso. […]
Rocket Fuel
A star packed sky dots the scene, Hand in hand, a quixotic dream, Jumping out of a Friday night, And onto the movie screen. Speed it up, slow it down. We glide across the shoreline. We out race the light, We love in never ending night! For It was written across the heavens, In the […]
The Fear Eater
The disease had sharpened my senses –not destroyed –not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story.-Edgar […]
Run!
“Watch it!” “Hey man!” “What the fuck!” I ran into the crowd, in the hopes I could lose it there. I watched as it dove in after me. It slithered it’s way through, pulling the bulk of itself forward. My face and hands bounced off jackets and shoulders as I frantically pushed my way through the […]
The Kings of the Universe, Part 1 of 4
He looked out on the office floor observing the activity. All busy bees buzzing about the interior office space, carrying laptops and notepads. Each one moving along, busy building the hive. Each one following trails and cubicled caverns leading to different work; interlocked and shared between; exchanging vectors inside booked conference rooms as each […]
The Visitors, Part 5
I awoke the next morning with my arm bandaged, resting inside a sling. I sat up, pulled the sheets back and placed my feet on the ground. Looking around the tent, I spied a make shift sink, made from a square pan, and a toilet of some sort, fashioned out of a chair with […]
The Visitors, Part 1
“One Is The Loneliest Number that you’ll ever do.” – Three Dog Night — “The tribes laid out their towns and villages in the form of constellations in the nighttime sky. The archaeological ruins show a remarkable alignment to the constellation Orion; the three inner circle cities making up the belt of Orion. ‘It’s not possible for […]
The Narcissist
Got seven candles lit, black wallpaper, black carpet. Looking for which (victim) to target. “ – Nas An Ezekiel Roberts Story “Ezekiel Roberts?” I heard the feminine tones of a woman’s voice ask. I looked at her image on the display while she stood in front of the door. “Yes! You are in the right […]
The Visitors, Part 4
Source Image I awoke to find Sofia gone. I’d slept right through the day and into the evening hours. It was night again and I was back on the move. I pulled the brim of my baseball cap down over my eyes, as I looked through the rain and into the distance ahead, […]
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