Writer’s Choice

Daydream Believer

It likely served an important role in human evolution. And, there is evidence that certain animals may daydream.

Neill McKee’s memoir, Guns and Gods in My Genes, could be described as a personalized history of North America.

I see the faces of the ones who do not complain. I stand, godlike, determining their fate. Civilization awaits my decision.

I shouldn’t say “should”, if I want to be happy. But who can be content while they are wasting borrowed time?

Cardamom cloves. Poured into mismatched cup and steel glasses. Sipped over gossip and a twin-tailed mermaid.

fat weighs less than depression, but has greater volume, filling the space between id and ego, a gelatinous buffer against world.

If you had had just a little more time, I might have pulled up my sleeve to show you the bruises.

Don’t mention my divorce or deferred adolescence but apologize
for the times I was a lousy parent.

He’s tired of feeling like a criminal. He’s tired of being in a country that needed him, needed his people, but didn’t want their kind.