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In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

in space, no one can hear the net go swish-swish.

Through Some Coincidence

Through Some Coincidence

Grief

Grief

Black coffee in a mug sitting ontop of a folded hat on lap in the hands of a person wearing a biege sweater, sitting outside.

GAZE

Aging ornate copies of Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey piled up in a tidy stack on a shelf.

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

A dark library shelf loaded with old hardcover books, the letters c-h marked down to up, crossed with a wooden ladder.

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

A jukebox lit by a neon display above it inside an otherwise low-lit bar.

The Power of Love

Laurel’s Tired of People

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

in space, no one can hear the net go swish-swish.

Through Some Coincidence

Through Some Coincidence

Grief

Grief

Trent Wants Your Best Sentence

Black coffee in a mug sitting ontop of a folded hat on lap in the hands of a person wearing a biege sweater, sitting outside.

GAZE

I come to him every day, every day in a new shirt.

Aging ornate copies of Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey piled up in a tidy stack on a shelf.

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

A dark library shelf loaded with old hardcover books, the letters c-h marked down to up, crossed with a wooden ladder.

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

A jukebox lit by a neon display above it inside an otherwise low-lit bar.

The Power of Love

An articulated tyrannosaurus skeleton in a museum, among other fossils and recreations.

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

He, Clarius

He, Clarius

A biege mixing bowl with a pouring lip, a mix of flour and eggs in it, with a whisk hanging out of it.

Nesting Bowls

AJ Will Meet You at the Dive Bar

Tell Me That One Again

Tell Me That One Again

She's told me this one enough that I get a 25% contact high just hearing it again.

Thank God

Thank God

Lost Arts

Lost Arts

Troubles

Troubles

Light Switch

Light Switch

seventeenhundred

seventeenhundred

pantoum for not drinking at home

pantoum for not drinking at home

Heather Wants Your Summer Lovin'

Wine corks lying on corded string, two still in their cages.

Rememberary

I’m feeling better than I was earlier, you said as you leaned in.

A hiker sitting at the edge of a cliff, overlooking a green vista, their back to the camera.

Midsummer Commoner

Meteors shooting across the night sky, studded with stars and framed with dark trees.

On Speaking

Stupid in Love

Stupid in Love

To You, In All Your Brilliance:

To You, In All Your Brilliance:

A station wagon idling with its hood up, halfway hidden in the tall grass at the foreground.

Pickup Zone at Conestoga Mall

Notes being taken at an office, with two pairs of hands on a table laden with paperwork, pens, and laptops.

Work Crush

Ben Thinks You Should Leave

Santa in a city street at night looking down.

Santa

I grabbed a cigarette with sweaty fingers and took my first drag in five years, eleven months and twelve days.

Chips being placed down on a loaded poker table.

journal (take #4)

A red bandana left crumpled on the edge of a table.

It Could Happen at Any Moment

Pallbearers carrying a coffin at a funeral.

Cancellation

Has This Ever Happened to You?

Has This Ever Happened to You?

Dan Flashes, This Is Just To Say

Dan Flashes, This Is Just To Say

Hold Me to Your Ground (Metalloid Maniac x Reader Fanfiction)

Hold Me to Your Ground (Metalloid Maniac x Reader Fanfiction)

Inbal is Feeling Fabulous

A study of the common vampire

A study of the common vampire

It is a common misconception that vampire’s teeth point downwards.

Fee Fee’s Curse

Fee Fee’s Curse

How to Travel to a Parallel Universe

How to Travel to a Parallel Universe

The Guest Room

The Guest Room

Jello Melon

Jello Melon

I am Digging a Hole and I Cannot Stop Digging

I am Digging a Hole and I Cannot Stop Digging

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Fiction

Nesting Bowls

A study of the common vampire

The White Pages

Fear and Loathing Below the Mason-Dixon

You May Be Entitled

Flash Fiction

Through Some Coincidence

GAZE

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

Flash Nonfiction

Tell Me That One Again

Thank God

Light Switch

Hot Streak

The Egg Essay

Nonfiction

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

I Went to Disney World and All I Got Was This Identity Crisis

Growing Up With a Low Rent Robin Williams

The Jeff and Jenny Trilogy

Hallowed

Poetry

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

Grief

Lost Arts

Rememberary

Midsummer Commoner