This is actually a very old piece, originally written a decade ago and then revamped about five years later. Something about it keeps drawing me back. Perhaps I ought to call it a prose poem rather than a story, though… Cover by Aero Gallerie. The patient Talla wakes in the hospital of the all-but-dead, and the … Read more…
This story originally appeared on Wattpad as an entry to the #PlanetorPlastic writing contest. I went the horror route because why not? Cover illustration by Erica Anderson, digitization by Jesse Lubera. In John’s dreams, seals thrashed, their necks throttled in plastic twine; birds lay on moonlit sand dunes, knickknacks bursting their guts. He’d stand in … Read more…
One of my favorite poems of the German language is Bertolt Brecht’s “Erinnerung an die Marie A.” The themes of youthful love, impermanence, and fading memory stuck with me the first time I read it, and the poem continues to give me a wistful feeling each time I reread. Perhaps someday I’ll attempt to give it … Read more…