Tag: fiction
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Celebratory Snack
A woman had just come through the revolving door and was confronted with “the Turtle Problem”. She caught the attention of a nearby teller, who noticed the predicament she was in and rushed to her aid. “I am rushing to your aid!” he said. He said it just like that, too. Just like that. The…
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Potato Peeler
Ridiculous how some things can go, can move and flow, one thing after another like plasma. Ridiculous. One cortado leads to another cortado, one rye leads to another rye, a simple flow of events that, once you step back enough to get the bigger picture, you can see a smorgasbord of things. Of amazing things,…
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Butter Gone Rancid
Every time one of them talks, I get the creeping sensation that I am that much closer to an ear infection. The weather is the typical catalyst for unnecessary babble, but it could also be other perceptibly negligible details. Household pets, special cookies being made, the state of the world. When did the world become…
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Done With All My Thrashing
And all in a hurry in front of your averted eyes – life. Teeming life. Fish in the sea, people on the sidewalk, cars on the road pushing and pulling, yanking and relinquishing. Weird time to be alive. And the day has only just begun. What was it Tomas said about the way people and…
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Un Momento Por Favor
The unyielding evening. The flight was cancelled due to “technical issues”, but what that was referring to was anyone’s guess. Did that mean one of the engines was malfunctioning and in dire need of repair? Did that mean the video monitors were down? Perhaps the pilot “just wasn’t feeling it” on that particular day? The…
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The Flamingo and the Hedgehog
Opening view. We see Hedgehog sitting on a bench unable to control his crying. He is sitting on a bus stop bench and has a suitcase on the bench with him. He is rocking back and forth on the bus bench. His quills are quivering and he looks very upset. Hedgehog: (wailing) Oh dear, oh…
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The Horrible and Ungodly Petrol Accident of ’94
We learn every time we come close to fucking at all up. We definitely learn every time we completely fuck it all up, that much is certain, but I think people underestimate how much we learn from the close calls, the “holy moly, that was close” episodes. Every time we almost fuck up, an angel…
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The Lamp to the Left of the Movie Projector Screen
It’s a weird trick, but a trick that almost every partner utilizes if he or she or they are “about the buzz” and “in the know”. It is a little trick that we are allowed to utilize on Saturdays. Only on Saturdays. It’s something that involves a movie projector, a screen, two lamps, and a…
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My Father, the Robot
Father was wearing an apron and serving salmon to us, taking the fillets off the grill and placing them on a wooden board and bringing the board into the kitchen, setting it down at the center of the dining room table. I was sitting on one side, stepmother was sitting on one side, and my…
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Soup and a Shave
And when he picked up the scepter from its roost, and when everyone around him was finished laughing at his ineptitude he had advertised on full display the day before, he came online again, set down the remote control and the voice box and the headset, and walked into the bathroom. The bathroom, where he…
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