Tag Archives: Microfiction

textures are failing it is impossible to failif u don’t neglect the watershedinspiration to exasperation the black bileof a black age coursingthru ur vena cava inflamed + debasedwith the glory of theeall mighty failure fail fail again failuntil the cows … Continue reading →

disengagement / engagement  . . . and with a deep suspiration she set her thumbs to tapping on the gorilla glass: a disconnect with attainment of desired goalsa disconnect with engagement of daily responsibilitiesa disconnect with realizing this awareness and … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The men who carry the stretcher move with urgency, as if the doing of care, of gentleness, can undo what has happened to this girl, to this place, to the bodies yet to be … Continue reading →

Dilatory Prelate (redux) The prelate drafts an encyclical announcing that the werewolves and camellias will be delivered on Friday to all diocese in the mountainous regions. It encourages all Englishmen and yogis to traipse about nude and re-stage the highlights … Continue reading →

Ready to Order With the waiter largely offscreen, none of the cheeses are what they seem . . .  Absorbing his friend’s accident—a taciturn stoicism gone limitless and flagrant—growing increasingly unsettling as midnight strikes and the Gouda appears. Bystanders switch … Continue reading →

make a flat about me implore the dishesas an ill-fated magazine mightafter a few tumultuous departuresspent amiably among the geraniums she wheels an epilogue of desireswords pale in sequencemisericordia perhapsa sugar narration for certaincut along the arthouse seam it rains … Continue reading →

These Were a Few of the Dreams These were a few of the images retained: The final scene is all she remembers. Massive black horses in water—a marsh, blue sky, angry cumulus darkness roiling in the distance. They need this, … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The dead are carried away in tote bags.Because they got carried away, they are borne away.Only some of those borne away got carried away.Some of the others borne away were newly born or else … Continue reading →