When You Were In My Heart

I watch you approach me in the produce section, it seems all good stories begin in the produce section. Your eyes are on a pineapple and I’m baffled as I try to look away — your clothes are dirty, shorts and a t-shirt so faded I can’t make out the picture on the front. Your [...]

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The Open Window

The field next door is perfectly mowed, I look at it because to me it is the world… my world. The world that keeps me company every summer. In the middle we’ve carved out a baseball field where we play every day. I never worry about being the last one chosen… they all want me [...]

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Melancholia

Who do you think you are? Sneaking in here in the brightness of a beautiful day. The breeze blows so gently that the leaves dangling from their perch in the trees look like they are waving at me in slow motion. The birds are so content singing from the hidden recesses of the branches, the [...]

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I See…

I see you… standing there on the corner. A cigarette hanging from your mouth, your fingertips are yellowed by the repulsive habit. Your hair is dirty, there is no color… just the color of alone, empty, left-over. You’re clothes are disheveled. I imagine you sifting through the pile of used clothes, strewn across a cold [...]

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The Stop Light

I drive past you, every day at the same time… at the same stop light. I drive past you. You’re always looking slightly down, maybe at your feet, maybe at the sidewalk, maybe you want to avoid eye contact with me as much as I want to avoid eye contact with you. You have a [...]

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Do you know me?

Do you know me? Did you look around the grocery store and see me comparing prices and values and after much deliberation I put the store brand into my cart because it was nine cents cheaper? Do you know me? Did you see me sitting in the corner of the coffee shop surrounded by friends, [...]

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Reflections

She stares in the mirror trying to see it, … reflections of the girl they all know. Trying to see what they all say they can see. She looks deep into her own eyes, nothing. Just brown… there, in the reflection. As if there were any more ordinary unassuming color than “just brown”. She sees [...]

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Priorities

Her brakes squeak loudly as she continually pushes them in the halting traffic. She turns the radio up just a bit so she can pretend she doesn’t hear them as she rests her arm on the rolled down window. It’s hot out. Too hot for the window to be open but running the air conditioner [...]

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Symbiosis

The symbiosis between her and the young girl behind the counter is almost complete, again. They know each other far too well now. She watches the young girl count out the money, she see’s the dollar bills neatly in the drawer and realizes why the plexiglass separates them. It would be so easy to reach [...]

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