In his library above the locked room of his warning the gold leaf catches light like a wedding band, tarnished and scratched by consistent wear, and the hardback’s cover curls…
A long time ago on an autumn evening afterschool, two small friends, Lila and Dolly, dressed themselves up like old ladies so as to go out Halloween trick or treating.…
Wolf can’t handle buttons. So before he savages Granny’s throat he forces her to disrobe & dress him in her own clothes. Wolf gags at the stench of the smudged…
Not many minutes after Marshall arrived at Ellen’s apartment the doorbell chimed. He had just draped his jacket and tie over a chair back and was unbuttoning his shirt. Ellen…
The Tabernacle of Eternal Peace Junior Choir was traveling through the city that day in a long yellow bus to a regional qualifying tournament when another bus, not dissimilar in…
He lost the device all humans have behind their forehead. Like a furnace filter sifting dander and dust or an oil filter in a car straining gunk and debris—a death…
(for Tom) If you say to a great ape: every time you explain yourself or defend your life in words, someone will knock you off your tree and you will…
I will swallow your holey bucket of needs{yes} And fill it twice a minute{yes} I will move this mountain pass{yes} Circumsnake the lakes of your fears{yes} I will hollow the…
Leo Reid buttoned the cinnamon drop buttons to his chocolate colored overcoat. It had started to snow outside. His hair, a shaggy suede orange, formed a cap on top of…
Find the cauldron behind the door. An arm hangs over its lip, as if the lonely limb could escape. Floating on the congealed blood, the skinned faces of your sisters.…
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