The house in the sky She sits on top of the red and white checkered polyester bedspread, her bare feet dangling over the edge of the bed. Next to a white square with its careful splatter of embroidered crimson dots is a coloured-in mandala. She has been filling in the empty spaces between the […]
26.04.2018 14:25
Texaco Afternoons in this place are quite different. A yellow sun blazes down on the sentinel tree. At its roots iguanas nibble on green grass and laze on rocks. On the water below high school girls paddle close to the shore in bright orange kayaks. Their shrill laughter rushes up on the wind and float […]
25.04.2018 6:25
Texaco I sit on the ledge listening to the waves below slap and swirl at the lip of the cliff. A pelican glides low across the water, the tip of its wings lightly brushing the swell. To the west a small white sailboat slowly makes its way to the edge of the world where a […]
20.04.2018 22:20
The Promise She is bored by this intrusion. “Have a good evening,” she says, as she turns back to her phone. They also turn to leave when the man takes a step back toward her. “Sorry to have bothered you,” he says as his lips pull up and back to show his teeth, “I just […]
12.04.2018 07:13
Pillar You killed me with your words wrapped in love. You cut the grass from beneath my feet, chopped my ankles in one clean stroke. Your voice, relentless, never broke. You took me down in one fell sweep, like an uncanny master of an ancient art. I watched me fall one thousand feet, watched ground […]
07.04.2018 11:21
The path “You don’t understand,” she said, “you don’t understand how important this is.” She looked away. “For the rest, I understand that it is not your priority today. So do as you please when you have time.” She turned and walked back up the path. – She watched her go with a sigh. […]
01.04.2018 02:21
Roots When the daughter saw her father again for the first time, fifteen years had gone by and she was a grown woman almost thirty, loving another woman almost thirty-four. He had given some of the best years of his life to another country where food on television looked mouthwatering in a plastic sort of […]
23.03.2018 6:59
Texaco musings She is a hard shell of feelings forgotten, a thin sheath of dreams gone cold. The sun rises on the steel box where she sits, warms metal casts gold through the glass pane and a rainbow on the horizon. Lukewarm dreams now, and a promise of fairy dust under blue skies. Warm metal […]
18.03.2018 01:59
The discovery of Time She had discovered as a child that the present had no boundaries, that it could be replicated infinitely by will. She simply needed to isolate and focus on a “frame” of some action occurring in the moment, then step back and observe herself. She discovered to her deep discomfort and fascination […]
10.03.2018 20:24
In an empty house near a sugarcane field She felt guilty for hating them. They were nature’s defective machines bringing mechanically into existence defective beings, lost soldiers born into a raging war they were not taught to understand, thrown into a battle they were not trained to fight. What forlorn creatures they were! Their eyes […]