Proclivities

It was the tenth straight day I’d come to the bookstore.  I was on my third unpaid-for book.  I took a seat in my usual spot.  She was there again.  She faced the bookshelf.  She had her elbows propped on the second shelf, holding her book open.  Her right calf was over her left shin.  The right foot tapped out a frenetic rhythm.  Seven-eight time maybe?  Long blonde hair fell in loose curls down her indigo dress.  It swayed in unison with her beating foot and she brushed it away from her face whenever she turned the page.  Two white sandals lay together neatly beside her feet.  Ass like an upside down heart.  Two men walked by, checked her out, and nodded favorably to each other.  Two minutes later, they walked by again.  She didn’t react.  Good, she’s not going to play their game, is she?  What’s she reading?  She’s not in the romance section.  Can’t talk to girls there anyway.  Heads all up in lustclouds and shit.  Don’t waste your luck.  No, she’s in the fiction section.  Looks like she’s in the R’s.  Who’s a good R author?  Can’t think.  Roald Dahl?  That’d be in the Ds, idiot.  Hopefully it’s something good.

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How Did I Get Here?

I’m on light rail yesterday morning when it occurs to me that it’s been awhile since I’ve played the “How did I get here?” game.  It goes something like this:  The next time you’ve got a free minute or two stop everything you’re doing and look around you.  Now describe all the things that must have happened to you in order for you to be doing what you just stopped doing so you could play this game.  I’ll wait.

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Memories in Obsidian

“Look up.”

Two hands lay palms-down on a brown briefcase.

Scars.  From cleats and dirt, knives at the bottom of soapy kitchen sinks, mother’s maroon-painted fingernails.  Memories.  The only way of knowing one’s actually existed.  If you don’t remember anything you don’t know you’re there.  Time.  The flowing of time.  The true nature of time is a spiral, not a line with a definite start and a definite stop.

“Wake up.”

The man moved his hands to the seat.  Sweaty outlines remained on the briefcase.  He looked up.  Sitting in front of him was a man, dressed in orange, like prison-garb but no indication he’d escaped anything.  Atop his head was a cowboy hat.  The man’s hands were folded on top of each other and both rested comfortably on a polished mahogany cane.  His eyes were fully white, save for irises that were a light blue color.  He smiled and looked directly at the other man.

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In Search of a Meaningful Moment

Two zebra-striped Angelfish bobbed upside-down on the water’s surface.  Their exposed silver bellies reflected the light of the florescent white and blue bulbs that hung under the fish tank’s canopy.  He walked over to the tank, pulled the lid open and sighed.  There were no more fish.

Great, he thought to himself as he dipped the net into water, now I won’t be able to sleep tonight either.

Lately, he’d dreamt of silhouetted, humanoid figures that rode oil-spill-black horses and chased him endlessly through impossible labyrinths, until he awoke, gasping and covered in nightsweats, to an empty bed and silent cell phone.  It had been forty years since he’d had nightmares as vivid as these.

They were, however, the very last thing he needed at the moment.

*****

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Kidnap People

New piece of mine!  It’s the first play I’ve ever written and I’m actually happy with the results.

I tried to paste this piece into the page but it was going to take too much work on my part to format it in HTML. So here it is in PDF format. It does contain strong language however, just letting you know.

Read it here.

Let me know what you think.
T.R.

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