Setting: on the curb outside a shabby art/coffee house, just at sunrise, enjoying a steaming cup of caffeine in the chilly, empty street ( Read more... )

Setting: in an empty Olympic stadium, after the crowds have all gone home but before they've hauled away the winners podium, standing on the top-most level, jumping up and down in triumph ( Read more... )

Setting: wherever I can see the most stars ( Read more... )

Setting: collapsed into an over-stuffed Victorian wing armchair, feet stretched out on a matching pouff, in a fancy, meticulous Victorian parlor ( Read more... )

Setting: hunched protectively over a drinking fountain ( Read more... )

Setting: in a secret underground lab that does impossibly inhumane experiments on human beings...having finally snapped the tethers that held me to the lab table...and broken the one-way mirror...stumbling through the cold unadorned hallways...lights flashing red and white...escape siren wailing ( Read more... )

Setting: On the roof of a Victorian-era house, peering through the neighbors lighted windows in the last shreds of dusk ( Read more... )

The building - once beautiful - is old ( Read more... )

Setting: on the roof of my run-down, Victorian-era apartment building, watching the hazy sunrise with a cup of tea and a copy of the "Seattle Times ( Read more... )

Setting: sitting on an over-turned bucket next to a long stretch of worn-out highway, asphalt cracked, a few weeds poking through, a straight line from one flat brown horizon to the other...waiting ( Read more... )