Not a day passes when I don’t feel I’d be better off dead. Yesterday I saw a girl in the market, looked like the daughter, not of my blood, I abandoned – to save my wretched sanity. That was all it took… Misery invades my veins like adrenaline’s nemesis. Making me ache for a […]
Sickness belched into reluctant, groaning consciousness. Sebastian’s first instinct upon opening his eyes was to scream. His second was to reach behind his head, groping for profound pain’s source. His skull was split – from what he couldn’t remember. He couldn’t move either. Both arms restrained; tied to the arms of the chair he […]
Source: http://www.topsimages.com Stage was set, death masks distributed to a legion of baying expectant fans. Soundcheck was a success; instruments perfectly tuned to her exacting specifications. All that remained was to step into the spotlight, proving the ‘show must go on.’ Who was she proving it to, she wondered: the fans or herself? […]
Was it you that I loved Or just the spongy hot tissue between your legs? Lurking in static charged with hopeless dreams I pinned to your breasts. Behind labia: whispering such beautiful lies, in exchange for another quickening fix. Breathless tendrils of deceit, uncoiling to enfold In abyssal emptiness, fashioned in the shape of […]
It was so very hard not to love her, and Morensky was fighting a losing battle. The moon was up, fading into view, chasing another hot sunny day. Now it painted its shimmering stripe on the ocean from shoreline to horizon. Incoming tide tumbled against the sands. Crashing waves filled Jack’s head, soothing Retinal […]
Last thought, before I fall to sleep. First thought, when I open my eyes. Face on the back of every bubble floating through my mind, every waking moment in between. Today I haven’t the strength for clever words. Just honesty. Dull boring honesty. We’ve heard it all before though, haven’t we? It still hurts […]
On her back, she lights a cigarette. Sharp smoky exhale inhabits moisture: viral sickness in a willing host. Breathless, her sweat smells like Jim Beam. Contours undulate: pale pasteurized dunes contrasting gloom; a thirties Femme Fatalé in carcinogenic monochromy. Stubble shored silken cleft: low-grade sandpaper against my whispering. I taste her, not in my mouth […]
Of Sherbet and Gin, tasted your skin. Blood alcohol’s begun to thin, to the gun in his mouth’s searing chagrin. Trauma-bound Saturday, once again. Damaged hearts in screaming din, when darkness find each other, within. Capillaries fused. Occlusion abound. Valentine mist. Intoxicant cloud. When lips first touched? Sweet melody – so loud Unfinished. Unsought. […]
Have another cold slice of heart disease, Dad. Only make sure to smother it in enough butter to see teeth. Partially hydrogenated milk fat laid like mortar on starchy carb bricks. Cement for suffering arteries: Failing blood tunnels on the verve of collapse, Holding tsunami’s tide at bay with a broom. You tiny, weak-willed, […]
Across the dark, six winters past, clear cobalt sky found me in her bewitching gaze. Azure spheres simmering aflame, for me. Such fission entwined flesh. Valves of a once beating heart: no longer the brass section of devotion’s orchestra. Something wondrous, rotten from the start until it finally fell apart. One necrotic half – […]
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