***Warning – Includes questionable content and imagery*** There she is, lying on the bed, the fruits of two weeks of work. Two weeks of bullshit, really. Two weeks of listening to her ramble on about her job as a veterinarian assistant in some startup mom-and-pop humanitarian effort. A last ditch effort for mom and pop [...]
Swimming in Parking Lots (Revised) July is the hottest month. Maybe not for any averages in the record books, but to me it is. I will forever equate July with scorching temperatures, sweat-soaked shirts, bone-dry infields and yellow outfields, peeling red-hot skin and rubber-green basketball courts waving in the heat currents. I’ll also remember it [...]
A chartreuse jellybean, the size of a small egg, sat nestled firmly within a Jack Daniels shot glass. A veiny hand, dotted with liver spots resembling ground sausage on a meat-lovers pizza, quietly slipped its bony fingers around the small glass and lifted it into the early morning air. Quickly following were a pair of [...]
Lighted I’m 21. Clueless. Only green. Not even alcohol really. I’m browsing the internet one frigid, purple-tinged winter evening and come across a website promoting a legal psychedelic. I’m intrigued. Legal? Why? I don’t order the material from the site. I order the plant. I’m gonna grow it. It shows up at my doorstep a [...]
Childhood I know of a place. A place where the wind breathes The Beach Boy’s Kokomo. Where jet-black storm clouds threaten the horizon. But never rain. Where the aroma of wet alfalfa clings to nostrils. Where a dozen Collie puppies bark pure happiness. Where kids leap from car bumper to hoop rim and get yelled [...]