Category Archives: Fictions

Better as a Shadow

Yesterday morning I woke from a dream in which I was looking out the window of my sister’s bedroom in my parents house and a nuclear explosion erupted in the distance, bright burning white light and fantastical mushroom cloud and all. I stood for what seemed like unrealistically too long, watching it and wondering what [...]
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Love Letter XLIV

I don’t know why you were brought to me. I met you randomly at a party of a friend of a friend. Our quasi-friendship was a complete accident, a series of happy coincidences, if you could call them that. I don’t know why you wrote me such wonderful letters while I was away, incommunicado. But [...]
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Anæsthesis

It’s only that I notice that I’ve forgotten them when they’re suddenly remembered. They have to reassert themselves, one by one, called back by some unseen or unknown stimulus. Thankfully, they are staggered and don’t return all at once. Sometimes I wonder if they actually die, or rather just lose feeling. Whichever, I can tell [...]
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