“She had a fever. She was burning up like a hot coal in my arms. I was cradling her and I started singing it mindlessly to her. Softly singing, ‘Got a feeling ‘21 is gonna be a good year…especially if you and me see it in together…’ Like it was the [...]
Doghouse Speaks…”If Memory Serves”
3pm in the park. The tattooed girl that I catch out of the corner of my eye resembles a girl I affectionately called “Sullen” – a girl I remember during the haphazard days I not-so-affectionately called my adolescence. I would see Sullen walking down the afternoon street with a safety-pinned backpack slung over her narrow [...]
To begin with…
It feels a bit like throwing a bottle containing a message into the void of space. It feels like hoping that bottle will float through the ether and find someone. It feels like hoping the someone who finds their hands wrapped around that space-borne bottle will take the time to read the enclosed [...]
