

"Taps"Throttling down the information super highway, mouth agape, Marvin leaned forward with excitement. Here is a world of unlimited possibility. Everything he could ever want at his fingertips. Youtube videos, Wikipedia pages, internet games and Craigslist. Here he'd make new friends and say farewell to old ones. He'd look at job postings and attach resumes. He'd set up dating profiles and fantasize about his potential mates, riding on a glimmer of hope that his precious box would one day find him true love. Smiling, he readjusted himself in his chair and cracked open a soda. A humming blue peered through his drape-covered shades, dimly lighting"Taps"


"8:48"fun thing to do: scrape the notches on my ashtray with a cigarette butt"8:48"
to clean them out
i feel like an archeologist delicately brushing the dust from an exciting new discovery.
notch ash is blacker
i find
when clean blacker still
things i fear: dying in my sleep an open-casket funeral


transference"transference"transference
standing still in an alternative clothing store was one of the few
things to do
in that city.
the hatted cashier talked about smoking weed last night "too much," he said and i bonded with him like a tourist would
i thought about asking him
for drugs because where else would i get some here?
but instead i insulted
the band on the radio
because he liked them.
every key player in this story
congregated at the
alternative clothing store
they never bo


"The Aircraft Analyst"I was hired onto the base as an aircraft analyst, which wasn't really what I was trained for. I am, by trade, an entomologist--I study bugs for a living--but I was hired for my "expertise" in the field of unidentified flying objects."The Aircraft Analyst"
I tried to tell them, my "expertise" was limited to the perimeter of my ranch, as that was the only place I'd ever seen the things, or made any other kind of contact.
But regardless, they marked me as a person of interest, and furthermore promised that my nagging federal debts would be evaporated pending my cooperation, so here I am.
The ride out was interesting.&