The empty briefcase thumped hollowly against her stockinged legs. She weaved her way down the crowded city streets, passing between people like water between rocks. She stopped suddenly outside of the high-rise doors, backtracking several steps. Her long silver nails pulled down her tinted sunglasses, her shocking orange eyes surveying the building over the topsContinue reading “Watch and Learn”
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Melancholy – A Dissertation
Melancholy. Some people make it through their entire lives without being touched too severely by its inky fingers, dipping into the stillest of waters and turning the whole ocean black and convincing the sailors it has always been that color. A new moon hangs over the ocean of the mind, coloring the midnight a deeperContinue reading “Melancholy – A Dissertation”
Horsemen
Photo via Flickr by subcircle I wrote this piece several years ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Washington. At the time, my father had successfully beat back Leukemia and I wrote the below as a sort of ‘near-miss’ emotional exercise. In light of my father’s recent passing, this flashContinue reading “Horsemen”
By Any Other Name
Alexander. The name stuck in his head like a sliver of popcorn in-between teeth. Caul paced the waiting room like a man possessed, grateful in a way that today he alone seemed to be facing this common ordeal. His panic had begun the night before, when his wife woke him from a sound sleep, hissingContinue reading “By Any Other Name”
Wasted Time
Louisa toyed with the idea of popping out her right eye, reaching in, and massaging the part of her brain just behind her brow which was threatening to leak out her ear. It was the third day of her migraine and she was out of any other ideas. Unread manuscripts and queries lurked in teeteringContinue reading “Wasted Time”