Tag: houses
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Anchors
The only thing I wanted to do was fall asleep. Not be sucked out by an undertow 1000 feet from shore. I looked down into the water and thought I saw a tentacle, it was too deep to know for sure, so, I tried not to think about it. Instead, I watched the surface for […]
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Storm
Lately, everything feels like a storm coming. Just yesterday, I was walking down Main Street and looking up at these clouds flying up into themselves and I tripped on a crack in the sidewalk, because I was imagining the whole town turning into a war zone. Then I remembered that when storms come, people can […]
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Bananas
When I imagine walking down the street with my parents and talking to all the living houses in the neighborhood through a kind of personification telepathy that helped me survive the lifeless and darker edges of my childhood more than they did, something flat and insensitive in me climbs out of a wish to be […]