[stories]
[Looser. Nearly-fiction. Essayettes.]
discord // the gradual normalcy
“Well it began with the sirens. And, of course, the sunset with no clouds at all and the gradient sky hanging, dying over the rooftop and up there the wailing didn’t seem so bad.”
no forgiveness for the shaggy
“It was the first day of summer and I was recently bald. Let me explain.”
how odd // how this thing revises you
Some vignettes for the leftovers, the recently-alives, written in a hurry with my accidental meantimes.
the known and overknown
“He knew his hometown down to the dirt, that much was certain, and he wanted you to know it.”
brush & repeat
“New parking garage going up. Remember to brush your teeth.”
maintain the gentle fiction
“You are watching as the world turns. You are making up each successive second for yourself, storing them one after another like an accordion file, your eggshell life is nothing but these consecutive accretive slices.”
swallows // nocturnal salt
A preemptive farewell to a city from a local still living there far in advance of an as-of-yet uncertain departure via some melancholic sentimental rambling as usual, aka (and I clearly should have led with this): An Indirect Austonian Au Revoir
time in quarantine
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waters of fall
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impressions of a Texan with sand in his ears
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