One. You walk in to the kitchen and there she is, pint glass in hand. On the counter is the nearly empty bottle of that rare and expensive beer that you had been saving. She is enjoying it. It feels like a betrayal although she claims it was an honest mistake. She offers you what’s […]
She pulls in to the parking lot, which is nestled between the three buildings. She is someone’s older sister, but not yours; she is a friend. All four of you are going to the same show. It isn’t until after she pulls the e-brake that you notice the barriers up around the one building. You […]
Into the hospital through the Emergency Room. Down the hall, bear right. Bear right again. Took a wrong turn; back up, retrace your steps, go left at the shelf full of antiseptic swabs. Behind the lightbox for the X-rays is a door. Pass through the door and you find a crowded room. A party. Navigate […]
It’s a large house in… New York City? It’s mansion-sized. Whatever the city is, it’s a large city. You don’t live here, you’re just visiting. But you also haven’t come to this house as a tourist. You’re not sure why you’re here, but you know as you assume your position in the line that you […]
The buildings are sinking. Not collapsing. Sinking. The ground beneath them becomes liquid. It does not melt, it simply… stops being solid. And so the buildings begin to sink. Almost everyone is able to escape in time. Leaving everything behind, and fleeing quickly across the skyway. There are a few that didn’t make it and […]
You’re at a pool party. One of your co-workers/team-mates pulls you aside. He knows a secret. (“Well, more of a rumor but…”) The Company has recently come into a large-ish stockpile of intercontinental ballistic missiles. With nuclear warheads. And they’ve been buying up retired quarries in Barre as places to cache those weapons. They’re calling […]
They’re coming. (It’s coming?) A storm gathers. Evening settles in. It is darker in the house than outside. But you know that the night advances along with the storm and the night brings a terror with it. You are but a scared child. Mother claims the doors are already locked but you know that it […]
They have moved hockey to the summer Olympics. You sit in the locker room waiting for them to call you out. Another player keeps trying to tell you a dirty joke about a doctor and a hooker. (“Get it? He fucks the hooker?” “I know. It’s still not funny.”) The announcer on TV keeps talking […]
You’re being chased. Your pursuers… used to be friends? allies? associates? You know them. But there is a tension now. They are after you, and are close behind. But you manage to keep giving them the slip. You’ll dodge down one seemingly endless corridor of apartments (hotel rooms?) and head down some other stair case. […]
A crowded bookstore. There are several simultaneous talks/book-signings going on here. All around the perimeter of this (oddly shaped) bookstore, you see tables and lecterns. Piles of books. Folding chairs. People (mostly middle-aged women) sitting in the folding chairs, or else standing. You’re searching for the table that has lured you here. (And you fumble […]