Find a nickel pick it up and all day you’ll have good luck?

Her knuckles rapped the door. It gave in like a scolded child, opening into the room. She stood there in its wake as if she were the new door blocking the world from this room. “I thought so.” She floated the words into the room and listened for an echo back. She picked the only [...]

I’m alive when I dream. Tell me when I can go home.

I can’t think my thoughts when Vista damns creativity with 11 point Calibri, day over night over double spaced monotony. In journalism, paragraphs are key. The holy grail of journalistic success, all you need are paragraphs. One or two sentences to express a statement of fact. Kyle Leerie, 23, died when his car crashed into [...]

I was 24 when my mom was born.

The first thing – past the uterine walls – they see is the bright clashing wallpaper. Ducks and llamas sashaying across a green background. The screaming follows. The slightly dimmer scrubs and white gloves distract few from the repeated duck and llama poses. The artist undoubtedly thought This, this will properally usher the babe into [...]

contacts.

My life is pixelated, populated by unfathomable faces, persons unknown. All day I walk around looking at shoes, hanging my head like it’s chained to Hell, avoiding eye contact as if it conducts a new strain of the black plague. Perhaps wondering, pondering the self-censored cardboard cutouts that frump into and out of my life [...]

Mask your Spirit

So try and dismiss that you’ve been remiss You couldn’t recognize the lies, or wouldn’t you? Now you lost, stay, accost me, you’ve been crossed Twice and again, now it costs too much for you To pay with casual nonchalance That seems to only help you use ignorance Wrought cold dark iron cooled by taunts [...]

the land before time.

Maybe there were dinosaurs. Probably sea cucumbers and Christmas tree needles. Only in the land before time there is no Christmas. There is no twenty fifth. There is just time. getCurrentTime() >> 997345463746392384684575730475730573785026346590 <time units> have elapsed since “startTime”. Why thank you, ambiguous pendulum for maybe something useful. What I really want to know is: [...]

pious about denying a man in clouds

Why doesn’t God fall through that fluff he mounted his kingdom on? he did. i wasn’t raised on my knees in a church, my nose clasped between Gospels. i know about as much of the Lord’s Prayer as our National Anthem. “Oh say can you see by the daunderly light….” i mumbled until i got [...]

A journalism class that needs to stop being three hours.

west coast ringer L.A. blinger bring her or give me the mother fucking finger two cents heads up penny wars butts up schlep them battles to a body that prattles less cares more Congress only pays the whores