Being Henry Bemis
Every night for a month straight, I laid in bed watching The Twilight Zone on Netflix. The macabre stories of…
Category: Original Lit
Living According to Tolstoy
I haven’t read a hard book since high school, where they force fed me books such as The Catcher in…
Russell Edson and the Strange Shape of Literature to Come
Like the character of the toy maker, Edson constructs his own worlds with parts of thoughts and feelings. His worlds…
Morning on Three Sides and Other Poems
Mornings. Like heaven. It's morning on three sides now Windows all around I love my old quilt Wrapped around me…
Gun Freaks: Are They Really Freaks?
Gun control is the topic of discussion after every rich suburban boy with an untreated mental illness gets angry and…
In the Mind of a Sleeping Cat and Other Poems
There was no god to begin with: only a small spectral entity lumbering up a tree. Not ennui, not cosmic…
Disaster Movies and the Collective Longing for Annihilation
The majority of the human species breathed a sigh of relief as they woke up Saturday morning December 22, 2012…
At Sea and Other Poems
He is in the water, legs kicking like horses. The water is joyous spinning around him its ribbons. The sky…
Small Love Affairs Gone: Music, Memory, Missing
I’ll admit: when I decided to give up my own music and let other people pick what I listened to…
The Bricklayer
Danny O’Toole suddenly found himself hovering somewhere between time and space; hearing conversations from people who were not there. He…