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  • The Tin Box
  • Too Much TV Is Bad For Your Health
  • Every thing, all at once
  • The Best Seats In The House
  • The Tin Box

    Annaleigh is standing underneath the willow, peering towards the house as the branches of the tree coincide with the whipping of her long copper hair against the wind. The baby blue paint is peeling away from the old body of the farmhouse, falling onto the sun bleached flooring of the wrap-around porch. Although she stands twenty feet away, she can still hear the dissonant rattling of the fan blades that hang lazily above the line of rocking chairs facing towards the east side of the house. Sucking the last ember of her cigarette before throwing it down, crunching it with her worn work boot. S...u8Pone door

    Too Much TV Is Bad For Your Health

    Agatha's fingers hesitated, her hand hovering like it was trying to sense some unseen force, a vibration, maybe a temperature difference, slightly warmer, slightly cooler than it should be? She held her breath and closed her eyes allowing her senses to close ranks and focus solely on touch. Nothing.She opened her eyes and let her breath escape. There was no astral message coming through the technology in her hand, no great sign from the universe to tell her this was the right course of action. She sighed and stabbed the numbers from the TV screen into the telepwww.onedoor.cchone keypad and hit the call butt...u8Pone door

    Every thing, all at once

    I woke up in a tent but it wasn’t my tent. It was nicer. Bigger. Brighter. I let my head clear for a minute, then sat up. I’d been looking at this tent on my phone for months. It was one I couldn’t possibly get but fantasized about nonetheless. Why? How?Next, I realized the cot wasn’t mine. Nor the heavy quilt, nor the battery-powered lanterns, nor the tarot-themed tapestries hanging on the far walls of this enormous waterproof structure. The rug wasn’t mine and the ultra-light backpack in the corner certainly wasn’t mine but my clothes appeared to be spilling out of it. The books, scattered a...u8Pone door

    The Best Seats In The House

    “Should I get up? Should I say something?”Eric whispered in my general direction from the seat to my left,“No, no, I’m sure it’s fine,”Julia answered from my right, forever not wanting to make a fuss about anything,“The credits have been over for like…5 minutes now, the movie for like 20, so?” Eric complained not bothering to whisper anymore. The theater was pitch black all around, soundless without a movie playing, and blind without the theater screen or any lights on inside of the giant room. “Just give it a minute I’m sure somebody just fell asleep in the projection booth or something?”Juli...u8Pone door

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