the heel press

Satin/Screens   I was still in school, with small legs.   The last time I sat i...

3 a.m., a twelve pack and I can see my breath.   I’m sitting on the hood of my car in the...

we grasped burnt out light bulbs in shaking left hands gently cradling the glass globes with bloodless fingers I...

Oh god, she didn't tell you? Lovebug must be going around, thinks she caught it on the train today. Some russian...

    “So, do you wanna go get some caramels?”  He looked at me, his stringy, greasy h...

As I sit on the curb contemplating a half empty bottle of whiskey, I consider how I came to be so utterly miserable a...

Anne watched the wind blow shards of ice into the west window behind his head and tried to imagine the sound it ...

  Ice Smoking               His br...

On Saturdays in most parks, there is an assembly of young fathers with beautiful daughters. And the mystery of it ...

When you're a kid, cartoon shows give this impression that the rooster crows once as the sun rises like some kind o...

Written mid-flight—just before midnight—in transit to the Philippines, sometime during the obfuscated ...

Author's Note: It's a little known fact that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien not only knew each other, but met every T...

The silence between the vocal vibrations of a distant newscaster dissolves into another pound on the eardrum of a lis...

Case Study in Korean Hip Hop Culture Interview with BFMin, a professional graffiti artist from Seoul, Korea - BFMi...

i wrote about the weather how it bruised the city & all the seas raised arms at the war cry of the wind How...

  As I wait on Springfield, MO’s last stoplight to launch me into the newest chapter of my life, I look ...

Damian walked through the semi-crowded streets, his Converse shoes scuffing the pavement every few steps. The wind...

we wrote our thoughts down on scraps of paper found in the crack of the sidewalk outside of our home I gathered the...

Thrown out of bed by my thoughts, I wander over to the computer and my swollen red eyes feel dry and crusty, the be...

don’t whisper sweet     nothings into my ear there are     better ways f...

She calls He's surprised. You're back already? How was it? She says yes, it changed her life. He sa...

Poof .   Purple firecrackers dance about, all swirly-whirly above my head.   I’m not sure...

When I was younger, not much younger, but younger than I am now, I went to my friend Sammy’s house and we wa...

It's dark in here sometimes.  Not always those shiny, blue swiming pools you'll see behind me - laughing...

The flattening fog smites sleepy mornings into an even quieter submission. Your gray eyes were uncertain in their des...

You are my favorite color. that perfect shade of gray of sultry melancholy which reminds me of an overcast d...

Jared came in the door and saw his answering machine flashing furiously. He knew why, but he can't really deal w...

The stunning and romantically tragic alcoholic wearing a red dress in the third row pulled out her journal and scrib...

I only know this: The train didn’t have any heat. Apparently upstairs sweltered, but we didn’t know tha...

It is customary in this area for establishments to be clean. The cleanliness is neither chemical nor sterile-- ra...

Two or three times a year we swam, marco-poloed guided by underwater lights and speeding cars on a Kyalami highway. ...

This is the third time you have called me up and said, “I think I’ve grown into my teeth, now.&rdq...

Fifteen years ago, when we knew much less about the world that we lived in, we would not have allowed ourselves to e...

There are millions    Of thankless jobs, Each withholding Its own unique capability To make people smile. ...

I’m cleaning out my dead sister’s apartment today. No one ever thinks about what happens to their stuf...

Dear Kaleb, It's 2 am here again all the lights in the house are on and I didn't lock the door just in...

Perhaps it is best to describe our relationship as sisters. I was the fortunate one chosen to be shipped abroad; she ...

"Did you know--" I love the way Jan says those three words: each one of them perfectly pronounced and fle...