Her self-deprecation had compounded into an Other inside of her head...
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Jam Session: Dream Weaver
Jam Session: Just What I Needed
No one wants to accept that the person that they are would not put up with the person that they are.
Jam Session: Slow and Low
A person only survives the danger they create for themselves by knowing what they are capable of.
Jam Session: Devil Inside
Joe spent every moment of his missing something but never figured out what.
Jam Session: Pines of Rome
The Pines of Rome was a ship with a body of oak though the crew in possession of her had no way of knowing that...
Closer
Listen to the story's song before reading “Help me…” I groaned; no one was around to care. I sat at a table outside the library, but with the way the story I was working on was violating me I may as well have been bent over. Up to then writing had been an escape, the... Continue Reading →
If I Ever Leave This World Alive
Listen to the story's song before reading My death was painless, quick, but the afterlife is a pop-up ad, inescapable. I think I remember looking one way but not the other, maybe the blow of a horn, definitely the thud of my body and CRACK of my skull against street. Even though I could think... Continue Reading →
Maggotbrain
Listen to the story's song before reading ‘Ya’ll have knocked her up.’ It was either the words that woke me up or the walls of my house shaking. Everything was dark, still again, but a murmur as confused as me drifted through the screens in my windows; I went outside expecting the same calm, starry... Continue Reading →
Steal My Sunshine
Listen to the story's song before reading I stood to the left of the store’s automatic doors finishing my third cigarette in a row; I’d rather risk cancer than go shopping with my girlfriend. It’s not that she took long, it’s that she didn’t take her wallet. I’d say she was lucky to have me... Continue Reading →
