As a general process, waking up makes no sense. It’s never that we’ve solved our way out of sleep and the day shows up because our fully alert selves are the final brush stroke it needs. No, we always seem to wake up in the middle of something that’s already going on. We never quite […]
Read more "Waking Up"FADE IN: EXTERIOR: We see a sidewalk and a city street whose traffic is facing towards the audience. STAGE RIGHT: We see a wall which takes up roughly half the stage, behind which the interior of The Diorama will soon be visible to the audience. This wall is the brick facade of a bar named […]
Read more "Antenna, Santa Rosa (A play for the stage)"Abraham and his tribe had started out as barely more than a collection of strangers, a blink in the mind of God. Each of them had been cast away from one of the larger tribes, who were in the habit of inventing reasons to push out their excess adolescents once resources got too scarce. At […]
Read more "Prophecy, (with Chapter 2)"Kendal Hashto was looking for something to watch. It was 2014, his senior year in highschool, and he’d yet to research colleges for spring enrollment or express interest in a particular major, despite having scored above 1100 on his SAT’s. Throughout his highschool career he’d gotten A’s in biology and chemistry, while getting B’s and […]
Read more "Living Legend: Ch. 17"Damian Echols was running. The West Memphis Tribune was still burning, its ashes wafting down around him in obliterated flakes while waves of sour smoke gulped into the sky. This was his home, hell in a snowglobe, the moaning belly of the beast who never stopped trying to swallow him whole. His stomach seemed to […]
Read more "Living Legend Ch. 13"“That guy looks like my mom’s boss. He was over here like three months ago for a Christmas thing. If that’s not him it fucking looks like him.” And the video froze, just as Arnold Tuplete’s hands tipped off their perch over his head. Isaac Arce’s eyes scrubbed the vision of Arnold’s face as it […]
Read more "Living Legend Ch.6"People who are furious tend to have a very suspicious problem. People are generally as upset as they are willing to try and change whatever is upsetting them, but people who are furious tend to be willing to do one thing and one thing only: show us that they’re angry, usually by resorting to physical […]
Read more "Don’t Get Mad. Get a Better System (Ask Me How)"First, there’s an explosion. It’s a deafening, Earth shaking experience. You can’t hear anything. Dust and smoke cloud the air. Second, there’s scrambling. People just try to get away from what’s happening, but no one is totally sure where the danger is coming from. So everyone runs every which way, stopping only sporadically to shout […]
Read more "The News, The Gods and Blowing Things Up"I have titled this document Unititled Document with every intention of screwing myself and anyone who reads it over. You’ll never be able to find it on purpose. I barely know where it is now. It’s destined to stick to the bottom of the digital information animal that defines your modern existence like some kind […]
Read more "The Untitled Document"Murray was a preschool teacher. It didn’t pay very much, but the job had its perks. Everyone could see what mattered about it and that’s not an easy thing to find in a job. “Telling people you work in a preschool is like telling them you pulled a puppy out of a fire.” He’d once […]
Read more "The Golden Rule: A Bromance Novel by Princess Fantastic"
Princess Fantastic 