• And on The Sixteenth Day

    Their neighbor Kelly came over for a visit, something that was severely frowned on. It was the sixteenth day of a 40 day quarantine, where everyone was supposed to remain a certain distance from each other and to isolate in their homes, save for the trip to the store for the essentials. “Thought you said…

  • Quickly becoming my dogs. Get yelled at for getting too close to strangers, falling asleep on the couch at all hours, wandering pointlessly about the house both day and night, getting excited about car rides, constantly searching for food and staring out the windows.

  • I can remember when it was easier to get laid during the AIDS crisis than it is to talk to anyone during this COVID-19 epidemic.

  • Season of Quarantine

    He had slipped out with the intent to be gone through nightfall. He knew all the roving patrol schedules and found that he could avoid their detection in the early hours of the morning and evening. He crawled and slid his way across the open fields, between the many compounds, until he slipped into the…

  • Dis bez Toms puppers…I’s rehomin’ my hooman, free to goods famelly, has paperz, likes long walkz, telbishon, sleepz, butt no liks chasen sqirls, barksen at pos-peples or pupperz takn hoomans for walkz.

  • The Stranding

    The sea was at low tide and I could see the jut of rocks a quarter mile out, sticking up from the surface. It was these that I decided would make a good point to swim towards as I entered the chilled Pacific waves. Invigorated, I climbed from the water and found that my perch…

  • If my dogs could talk, they’d say, “And now you understand our boredom, it’s why we chew shit up, Tom!”

  • “The Moon is in Cancer,” The horoscope read. No wonder it looks Sickly and pale Each full night After it has risen.

  • Imaginary Nevada: April 1, 1920

    https://soundcloud.com/sierra-tom-darby/in-20200401 He knew that it had to be a spell. His mother could not be here and Brady shook his head hard to make the image shift into its real self. The thing then, whatever it was, shot straight into the morning sky and disappeared from sight. Suddenly others like it came running from over…

  • The Fly Away

    It was difficult to tell if I was seeing things or if what I was seeing was real. He was a stalk of a man, thin in every respect of the word, and tall. Around his middle was a large circular frame, draped in what appeared to be parachute silk. The frame was strapped to…