Wednesday Words – Facebook
He clicked the loopy arrow at the top of his screen to refresh the page again. Her half-open mouth, sheathed in deep red lipstick disappeared briefly. His eyes flicked to the bottom of the window: “Waiting for www.facebook.com, Transferring data from profile.ak.fbcdn.net, Waiting for static.ak.fbcdn.net…” and then she was back again, frozen mid-sentence above his [...]
Wednesday Words – Elevator
The sad old demon sat in the corner of the elevator hunched over his knees, face in hands. Thick leathery skin, no longer the vibrant red of youth but purplish with age. His wings twitched and closed around him, their fine silk shredded now by the arrows of countless do-gooders. Across from him, his charge [...]
Wednesday Words – Fathers and Sons
I regarded my father from across the table – his moist, soft eyes deep-set among the folds of skin dripping from his high forehead. I had watched his eyes retreat beneath these folds and his forehead stretch into a vast expanse of pale flesh since I was a child, and studying both now (mottled freckles [...]
