Whenever an ambulance arrives at our apartment, it means someone else is dead. One of the old people. Usually over 80. My ears are sensitive to the sound of sirens. I think it’s because of how my parents used to scream at each other. Now that I’m over 30, I usually have a decent control over loud noises. Never sirens. I painted my toes red and blue in middle school once for the fourth of July. Douglas Clark said they reminded him of...
Namaste blog tribe Once upon a time this was "published" in a land that no longer exists, in a galaxy far... far away. Enjoy. One day it will be a book, and what not. I love you. The Wish of a Curse I agree to be hypnotized. I believe going deeper might slow my tapping foot. My left foot is always the first thing to unfold. My face gives nothing away. Tennessee says horrible things about me. She waits to hear the clang of my car door after work...
public transportation He has a low voice with a sound that rolls syllable waves down the back of her legs when he says things like "Speak to you soon..." It leaves her with weak knees and new hope, makes her turn her head. The mysterious pair is permitted two ten minute walks a day. To and back from the bus station. They arrive in the city every day from opposite directions. Each bus stops at the depot on the nose of 7am and departs at 4pm. Ten...
“Girls bleed from their things you know.” Troy Klover has buckteeth and tomato cheeks. He spits when he talks and is shoving chubby fistfuls of Ranch Doritos into his mouth. If his mother knew he was eating Doritos at the bus stop for breakfast, I bet she’d yell at him. Our moms have been friends since we moved to the neighborhood last year. We have the same grade four teacher. “I don’t really give,” I tell him. Troy thinks that what...
disregarded sect Gypsy sees road kill and says a Hail Mary. Death depresses her for different reasons than most people. It’s because she knows there’s no such thing. It’s because she knows you’d never believe her. I know you’ll never believe me. Please disregard. Gypsy heard voices far before she was able to pronounce the word schizophrenic. She once read a definition for the term as “mental fragmentation”. That didn’t really...