"You have reached your destination." The robotic voice of the navigator announces, no joy, no sincerity, no sense of arrival. Another customer has r...Read more

Plates of pure simplicity glide silently across the conveyor - an endless stream circling again and again. I eat what's there, nothing to crave. Once...Read more

The car swerved on a whim. Headlights flashed, blinding both driver and animal. A screech of wheels, a heavy bump, wooshing air, a hollow thump. It ...Read more

We finally tied the knot today. Her patience had run thin, though mine had not. The ceremony was quiet— just a quiet farewell to the girl she once w...Read more

Happy Friday! Corporate has unclipped the leashes of their dogs. Instead of the morning sun, they chase the dimly-lit clubs with burning liquor to dro...Read more

Bread and circuses, circuses and bread. Bread and circuses, circuses and bread. The bread is great. Recipes differ, but all leave you rubbing your s...Read more

Not the red of gore, Not the blue of the salty seas, Not the black of the death of day… but yellow. No, not the yellow of the rising sun, not the ye...Read more

If you ever find my footprints, pretend you never did. You can follow them, through the sea of faces through the concrete jungles all the way to my do...Read more

They say for every paper star made, a fallen star is saved. Those diamonds in the velvet sky, they twinkle, knowing someday they'll die. I can't sav...Read more

What hurts the most? Is it my jaw? tight from holding back repressed anger, unspoken words? Is it my shoulders? Slumped beneath the weight of expect...Read more

I guess you can say, that I’m a bad seed. Variegated patterns, speckles and splotches, each an imperfection ingrained, with uneven ripening, the puke...Read more

My heart has been broken. Translation: Winter has arrived. I am grateful to have loved you, Translation: Spring and summer composed a symphony, b...Read more

I thought the pain would end in 30 days, yet here I am, standing at the 31st - Working a job labelled a 9-5, as the clock mocks - ...Read more

Built like an ox, limbs like redwood, skin like burnished gold, a crescent moon grin. The snapshot for lustful eyes. But I wonder, how the burnished...Read more

I stopped by a gumball machine. "Out of Order" it said in bold, in red. No one shakes it, No one demands it to work. They simply walk away. It's stra...Read more

"Riddle me this," asks the arm riddled with scars. "What is pain yet peace, torture yet relief, a trap - yet somehow an escape?" Read between the li...Read more

The eyes are the windows to the soul. I guess yours are streaked with the flames of auroras, the stolen wings of jewel beetles, and lost treasures o...Read more

The white rose garden stood untouched, reserved for hands so pure, so just. Only one could tend to it with care to breathe the fragrance, bright and r...Read more

An hourglass tells me once the last grain falls, all I need to do is turn it over. Every grain, encased in glass, is safe in my hands. A beautiful dr...Read more

I bought a toaster recently. With it came an instruction manual: **How to toast bread:** – Plug in the toaster – Insert slices of bread – Set br...Read more