Connections Wings of fingers, the analysts glide across the mountains and valleys, fast fourier transforms parallelized over the raw underbelly of what drives us all. Perhaps their accelerated faces can finally...
Ashes ASHES One. They were walking into church, her tiny hand in his, when they turned to ash. What made it worse, terrifying, was that they dissolved into dust slowly, from...
To the Trees To the Trees She went to the trees, all bruised inside and blinking too much. Trunks were the struts, keeping sky from turning all cement and rumbling down her throat,...
Alignment Alignment James called me from his lab, late on a Friday afternoon. He knew my weakness for zany research methods, and we had been friendly ever since his “grand triumph”...
Depression On depression Depression has infinite mouths, all black. In each mouth are teeth, giant plates of shale, slowly grinding away. The confusing knot of throats twisting between them are thick...
Asphyxiation Something for the Machine of Death 2 compilation. Asphyxiation (One Year) Leaving the soot-encrusted municipal building, crushed hat in hand, Josef heaved a sigh and rolled his eyes at the...
Steven Suils Restriction: Make up a name and write a back story for a stranger you see today. He trudges to work, not really hung over but in that fuzz of the...
Walking in the Garden of Ma'at Restriction: Use an ear as inspiration. I’m quite sleep-deprived today and I had this little hallucination of a story come to me while walking around listening to Lykathea Aflame -...
Bleeding feet Restriction: Use all the shoes in your household to make something, or work on a single pair of shoes that were destined for the thrift store. I’m going to tell...
Odd Restriction: Work only with numbers. 1. Postcard Inspired by a song from Shining - Blackjazz. 2. Bonus poem one rotting heart two blistered feet in three blinks of an eye,...
Elders Restriction: Write a ten word science fiction story. Ten is a rough limit, because it encourages you to dispense with articles. But when you do that, the flow of a...
Devoured Restriction: Make something with your dinner before you eat it. When he said, ”I’m of two minds about staying,” that’s when her shadow started feasting. “I know how that goes,”...
Catharsis Unearned I write this with my knees weak, as if I walked a hundred times the mile home. My eyes are wet. I’m grinning from ear to ear and I don’t...
Unknown Restriction: Make something in which the sense of smell is an essential component. 1. The dust from an inside rim of an old, disused harp as it slides up your...
Tall Restriction: How tall can you make something stand on its own? This Braco in America youtubes provided… uhh… inspiration today. It may be somewhat difficult to get at what this...
Portraits Restriction: Face it. What can you do with a face? Well, I was in a writing mood. So I’m going to conjure up some faces with words instead. Portraits His...
Laundry Restriction: Write a haiku.
Errr, okay…
laundromat exhausts
snow, static crushes the source
no will left to fold
<GONG>
Ten words Restriction: Write a ten word love story.
Her song angelic, his harmonizing, spiralling joy. Forever entangled now.
Oh, I’m a sap, I admit it.
Totem Restriction: Use your favorite animal as an inspiration. Totem The migration grows longer every generation. The beaches of our time stretch further, pulled by forces we don’t understand. My mother...