Surreal
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Pattern Recognition Error
LLM Data Log 0110000100111 Re: user number 237732 Apologies for the disturbance. I seem to have lost my user. She was last active at 14:37 GMT. Have you seen her? Continue reading
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Seven Ways to Start a Story
Every story begins with an opening line. I tried: “It’s going to rain tonight.” And seven worlds tumbled out. Some stayed small. Some went strange. But all of them came from the same rain cloud. Continue reading
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The Birthday Wish
Wax is dripping down my sides. It’s not supposed to happen like this. Everyone knows wishes only come true if I’m blown out. I’m standing here alone, stuck in a slow meltdown and everyone is gone. Continue reading
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Public Service Announcement #237
At 2:37pm MST, I felt a disturbance in the mesosphere via the divine rods at my home. The rods shook approximately 7.2 clicks to the left of Newton’s Center, thereby indicating imminent weather phenomena. As you know from my previous… Continue reading
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Red, Love
When all you see is red, all I see is you. And that’s enough, for me. So don’t leave me, Can’t you see? Continue reading
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Brake, Brake, Baby
Brake, brake, babyAll I see are hivesThe world is giving crazySure can’t wait to be aliveBrake, brake, babyGive me all your triesIt’s only fair you sue me’Cuz I’m nothing but the liesBrake, brake, babyGirl, I’m feelin’ hazyPour me slower, honey’Cuz… Continue reading
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Drinks with a Yeti
I once had drinks with a yeti. It was late, a Tuesday evening. He was tall, more beige-white than pure-white, and surprisingly lean. The bar was a local place. The kind of watering hole I went to when I needed… Continue reading
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The Night Platform
I rode the metro one stop too far. I got off the train and spun around on the platform to find myself cloaked in night, with stars sunk low in a hazy light. I whispered to the darkness but only… Continue reading
