I woke up early this morning, 3 hours earlier than I had intended, unexpectedly opening my eyes to see the rosy-colored fingers of dawn poking into my room through dusty blinds. The guy who lives upstairs was outside gunning the engine of his rusted-out pickup. His parking space is directly behind my bedroom window. I might say something one day, ( Read more... )

alluvial plain: cocryphonic oxter update: dog-eared valentines from telemachus: halfpintport chincy mangrove mystery lover loathes to know a nickelpincher a alleysucker she said me five times to thursday before september came a quiet passage so we turned the noise up and did not look at each other, this was agreed upon with inward watching. windows ( Read more... )

i spent two hours today pushing, pushing, yanking, prying, and beating viciously my headlight mount on my car, trying to get it loose to replace a dead bulb that i've been meaning to get to for over a week. this was the first time i had to replace anything since i bought the car, and whoever replaced a bulb before did me the courtesy of stripping ( Read more... )

i woke up wrapped in a smelly blanket on a floor. this was enough to take my full concentration to comprehend for a few minutes. i lay there on my side, not moving, just feeling the hard cold floor under me, just thinking about where i was and how i had gotten there. i didn't know. i still don't know. i opened my eyes and looked around. it was that ( Read more... )

the town was the valley and the valley was inescapable, the yellow slanted crumbling hills might have only been a few hundred feet above but they gave the impression of being impassable everests, gloating as if to say "sure, you can climb to the top of us, but when you look out in the distance all you'll see is more, more of us." i snarled at them ( Read more... )

two nights ago i was walking down a long quiet road out in the middle of the county, nothing around me but overgrown pasture and something chittering off in the bushes like a squirrel or a skunk. there was a strange metallic smell in the air, maybe someone using spraypaint over the next hill, something. the sun was definitely on it's way out, ( Read more... )

last month was a smear and not a word was written of it to you silly saps. around tree-day time i got a hunting cap with those furry ear flaps that hang down and look silly. it's very warm. we had a most awesome new years celebratory. i found some interesting things in dumpsters. my shoulder pops and creaks whenever i move it this way. i became ( Read more... )

i edged one step closer to the straw-and-mud-caked ledge to peer over at the slope and the ledge gave way with a quick squish, my shoe sinking up to the ankle in the wet mud and me toppling over sideways, my arms flailing out, my left hand scrabbling on a dead tree branch for purchase. i heard peter and ariel shout behind me and in a moment they ( Read more... )

only writing when i'm sick, just looped words in fingers ready to reel out so soon i'll be free to concentrate on those better nothings. my kitten ate part of my tooth today, she washed it down with ginger ale she'd thoughtfully and obviously premeditatively spilled onto my bare toes. few of you might know that reubens actually detested obese rich ( Read more... )

woke up with a solid headmass of green infection, kitten smacking me in the face, 45 minutes to steam myself alive consume cinnamelia toast crunch and get on the road to unload guitar and periphials into bj's room and commence to weird out, me playing my guitar from behind while a thick boombox bass beat rattled the foundation of the house and bj ( Read more... )