Checking in
On Thursday nights, he headed down to his usual bar where he wasn't known by his name, but by his drink. Same old, same old, the locals always joked with...
Soon, We Won’t Have To Go Anywhere
Being a millennial and a spawn of the beginning of the internet, I am the last generation to know what life was like before the invention of the modern home...
Putting it Off
There is nothing more contradictory, lecherous and helpful in the world than procrastination. People put off the things they know they are supposed to do for a million different reasons:...
Civic Virtue/Vice
Hauntingly aware of Not knowing how to know yourself Either from lack of friction, of Manufactured and gifted heart aches, Of choosing the other end of pain, Of civic vice...
Before
If we listened hard enough, we could hear the rust growing over the screws and the bolts of our cages. It reminded me of noises from the Before: tablecloths being...
'This Feels Real'
I've been trying to wrap my head around and think about what makes this world, our world, "real" compared to the inevitable move into the metaverse. Maybe it's after listening to the most recent Lex Fridman podcast with Zuckerberg. Maybe it's the consistent digitization of our lives. Maybe I need to touch some grass, but, as Dylan said, Cause something is happening/And you don't know what it is/Do you, Mister Jones?
Is it OK if We Discuss Your Sister?
Previously published in Xray Lit Mag, Is it OK if We Discuss Your Sister, is a short story focused on coming to terms with death, a fact of life we...
'Lost Boys' is part memoir, part longing to return to a time when want and need weren't as tied to one's future (and expectations) as today...but that's life.
I hope you enjoy 'Lost Boys'.
'Hope' is half prose poem, half meditation on the perceived limits of hope, yet staying alive in energy by those who believe, or strive to believe, that hope is, in fact, limitless.
Please let me know what you think about the poem's presentation. It would help me a lot I'm figuring out the best way to show them on Lens.