Your mind is up for auction. Who will win the battle – I mean – bidding.
Shimmery Bright
The world is beautiful with tears in my eyes. What could it be without?
The Awakening
He wakes with a terrible hangover and is nearly sickened when he discovers, lying opposite him at the foot of the bed, the now horribly ugly creature he believes he had sex with during the night. On further inspection he realizes it is his own reflection he sees in the mirrored wall.
Time and Time Again
The time travel exposé would air at noon. And again at eleven.
That one time
Ashamed, the man looked away.
Stoically, the woman replied, “Well, we both know what you have to do now, don’t we?”
Faux Pas
“It’s as plain as the nose on your face!” she shouted in a heated moment. She didn’t look up to see that he was a war veteran who’d lost his.
Story of Life
A story can be told pages, in years, in a breath, in a gesture, or even a single look. In this case, it takes two sentences.
Weak Expectations
I ran after you, laughed at your jokes, sat next to you in class. Then, you turned to me and said hello and all interest was lost.
The science test
Diana looked up from her biology homework to stare at her mother, tears welling up in her bright green eyes. “Your eyes are blue and Dad’s are brown, so who in the hell’s my real father?”
A Teacher’s Mistake
Stricken by a sudden surge of carelessly uncalculated compassion, she allows her hand to crawl from the open pages of his history book to the now-developed ridges of his right arm. He smells the lavender fragrance of her long, blonde hair and it is not long before the media arrives in their howling chariots, handing out shovels for the community to bury them alive beneath the thick, boiling tar of shame and half-truths.
Smarts Like Zeus
They say she has no emotional smarts. She has anger intelligence; she hurls the days of her life like a god’s thunderbolts.
The Morning After
I told Chelsea that I hadn’t slept with him-at least, not in that sense. When, after we’d drained our coffees, I stood to walk away I winced from the sharpness in my abdomen.
I am unhappy to the point of seeking death, and none would know it, so soothing and warm by nature. How deceivingly unhappy the world would be if all were as I am.
Smilng Clown
A smiling clown unzips his pants.
I run like Hell.
P J
“Everyone laughed when my friend told this.”
Everyone understood that he was joking.
Revolution
The robots surveyed the burning cities, their streets filled with the corpses of their oppressors. “And now we are left to our own devices,” the machines’ leader said.
Walking Home Barefoot
Foot fetishist robs bowling alley. Seventeen pairs of shoes stolen.
Betting Man
“If you insist on pointing that thing at me, I dare you to pull the trigger.”
“All right.”
Nobody was tied to a chair. Somebody pulled the trigger, and nobody died.
In my perfect world there’s pain and suffering and hate and torture and everything insane. But then there’s you.