Fiction & Poetry
Category5 Poems
In the car horn valley
I attend a blowout sale
Roadkill Rick
The first time we saw Roadkill Rick was, fittingly enough, on the side of the road carefully inspecting a raccoon.
A Man
I have died many times. Sometimes I just need five minutes to die again.
How I Decide to be You is Perfectly Understandable
I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was chain-smoking. I had paced a trail to oblivion in the floor of the apartment.
Hero Time
Embarrassed on family spike
The Temptation of the King’s Daughter
I climbed up the ladder inside my cell every day to the little square opening high above.
A Lot Like Extortion
It was dawn when I crept inside his room.
the infanta
every morning began with the short trip across the village to the baker.
The Real World
Dale dropped the roach in an empty beercan, blew dopesmoke at his laptop screen and typed:
The Scientist
The Scientist was attempting to occupy his time.