THE DREAM The dream was always the same; cold metal table, blinding lights and voices, so many voices. Steve would wake up shivering and sweating at the same time. For as long as he could remember, the dream was always the same. Something felt odd this June...

“You didn’t clean the oven!”   “It’s already clean… plus I didn’t know that was on the checklist.”   “Si, it is! I have to write it down.”   “Seriously? There’s literally nothing in there.”   “Si mami, I have to.”   “Ugh.”   ________ “How was your casting?”   “I got it! It was literally so easy. They had...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S5pAF1YYA   The Big Snit is a short animated film that was released in 1985. It portrays a couple so enthralled by a Scrabble game that they fail to realize the nuclear war that is going on right outside their door. It illustrates how frustrating yet beautiful...

Rainy Day One rainy evening I was having my dinner and heard someone knocked the door. I opened and saw a stranger with a long dress and hood on. He asked if I can give him some water. I offered to come and put him on...

A Cold Greeting The doorbell sounds. Mark is awoken from a deep sleep. A bag of chips slides off his chest onto the floor as he struggles to his feet from the couch. Bleary-eyed, he opens the door. No one is there. Strange he thinks as...

"How the hell are we supposed to create a walking hurricane?!" The room falls silent. A conundrum the University of Miami had not foreseen when the football program adopted the nickname in 1926. Following a particularly nasty storm that struck South Florida that year, the moniker...

by: Christopher Adams Happy Birthday Patrick   He'd slept out of his covers again and woken up cold. The room was only just coming round and the old man was always up first, naked and sleepy and thin. Numb vibrations built into an even roll of whooshes and sweeps....

Dialogues: Bittersweet Virginia   “I’m moving to Virginia!” she said in a mellow tone “You’re kidding; you just bought a house in West Palm!” Her friend said in pure shock and confusion.   “I’m going to lease the house if you want it.” In a melancholic tone “I mean I do, but not right now....