You. The ones inside, having the party. In the big aging greystone on the hill, with your sillouttes in warm yellow light through the paned windows, you with your gay laughter floating down the hillside and rolling into the evening. Let me the fuck in already ( Read more... )

[Readers should bear in mind that this was written months ago, before readers go all off-the-deep-end on me ( Read more... )

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and the truck in front of me, a rusted, dilapidated dump truck
has a yellow sign on the bakc with big black letters that say
"DO NOT FOLLOW"
How awesome is that.

I've been a bit quiet here.
I'm writing a story for a girl that hasn't ended yet. Not yet, at least.

The sun came bearing through the glass door we kept propped open by a half-chunk of concrete, hot and dry, and 97.9 played over the stereo. Our AC was busted again ( Read more... )

It started one day with him at the counter, me sitting next to him, waiting for something. A delivery, my late lunch now that the sift had ended, whatever. In a couple weeks, Josy wouldn't be there at all, Mike would go behind the counter himself, and i'd remain sitting, smoking. I mean, I couldn't smoke right next to the grill and all ( Read more... )

I got out of that place after three months, give or take. Give or take what? a week? A shift? A paycheck? I moved to chicago, where both those men came from, both made mistakes, both crossed paths, somehow ended up crossing again in front of mine. I could just as well be them, if I had a little more balls and a little less sense. But not too far in ( Read more... )

Surface-level at best

So she was cornered by some friend I wasn't expecting ( Read more... )

When you see someone new, the time projectionist doesn't begin to overcrank, slowing the moment down for emotional contemplation and perennial memory. When you kiss, the violins won't play, the fans won't blow her hair about. When you get her to bed, it won't be anything like a porno (though it's possible I've been doing it wrong all this time ( Read more... )