Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

Bray of Winces (redux) S. understands nothing. He tries, squint-eyed, to turn his brain over. Without spark, the ignition doesn’t catch. S. sees himself, monochromatic, on the screen of his childhood 1974 Panasonic. He’s talking globular in a rectangular city. … Continue reading →

Venting Splenetic Nothing additional to add to the crimes against humanity? Huh? There are mental impingements circulating in the ether. We are helpless to change their direction, their aim, their relentlessness. What we did to deserve this is make clear … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week “The thing is, May,” the hum said, “the goal of advertising is to rip a hole in your heart so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other materials that … Continue reading →

eyeless and unctuous take my eyesi want them out the colors blanchedit all went soft monsterseverything i saw lost its definition there is nothing worth seeing in this world now What I’m Reading: I bathed in a bathtub full of … Continue reading →

darklight nightmare ii drag city intimacy clippedi look back at the wakeof my time there and seeonly the outlines of bioluminescencein the roil today, at 7:15, will be taxingdocuments of the trash city sicklike the light limning the outlineof the … Continue reading →

Mainlining Extinction (redux) An overheated tragedy unspoolingin a slow motion, so obscene—so perverse—in its deathly insistence,and the players moving aboutas if in a deep pool of molasses.What gives? Why this suicidal main-lining extinction by heat, drought,famine, forced migration, acidification & … Continue reading →

Darklight Nightmare Flotilla face on the yardarm angles me grace in deliquescence. Crill face sanguinary acts without the bliss and bloom.  Wreck me a fantastic drool spanner in deep blue space. Deep sea snow is dying whales and jellies as … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week How could I forgive myself if I left you alone in the crowd. The sky rains downiron and the earth’s an old carpet getting shaken out. From the crowd, thehospital is far, the sky … Continue reading →