Perspective, or a Brilliant Idea for an Award-Winning Piece of Short Fiction
Each command+shift keystroke combo provoked a gauntlet of urgent software updates, pinwheeling beachballs, and prompt boxes for long forgotten passwords.
JAKE
Chicxulub
So if you looked up / and saw flames painting the sky, / what would you think?
Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?
On Facebook people are even angrier and it’s more real, because if you’re on Facebook in 2022 you don’t care what people think of you.
Deadlines
He couldn’t come up with something to say every time he ran into this guy. People expect too much when they put you on the spot and force you to think of something. It’s not that easy to come up with clever dialogue.
The Truth Stings
she has to ask it again as I lean in closer / “Do you ever have doubt?”
Guess I'm A Paper Nautilus Now
This is my chance at freedom. That word is euphoric, I can't help but smile feeling the shapes into which it presses my mouth. That's why today has to be the day.
My doll watched
As we slipped off their dresses and dipped them one-by-one into their pool, Barbie stared, unchanged, and I thought of when I first unboxed her, newly four, half a shelf of dolls beside the built-in closet.