surreal
TagI have that strangest void for you
Under the dome? The Stephen King novel where a city is put, obviously, under a dome? Was that its title?
The Woman with Mice
This is the truth. The mice were really her whole problem.
Opossum
Pete and Richard’s orange safety vests glowed a blinding light under the scorching sun, and their sweat dripped onto the pavement as they stood in the middle of the right lane on Highway 61, staring at an opossum lying stiffly on its side.
The Room Between Dreams / Ringing the Bell
Abner awoke from a wonderful dream.
GOOD BOY, NOW SIT / GOOD BOY 2: THE HAND OF GOD
I was imagining being walked naked on my hands and knees like a dog on a leash through the town square when the mayor walked up to me.
Secret Little Dealer Diplomat
And another offered limb Frances cricked, and another, folded each appendage against itself. “Brittle boy,” in a kind of whisper she said.
Cynthia’s Mug
Cynthia’s a good cop. Was a good cop, anyway.
Louis Armstrong Cured my Sex Addiction
The first time my mother asked about phone sex services appearing on her phone bill I was fifteen years old.
Thwarted by a Line of Diatomaceous Earth
1989, I snuck into the shuttered
Ruin of the Granada Theater.
We Called Them Helicopters
Headhunters mock us from the pass above.