The Patient floated out the window and into the air. The tube connecting his arm to a plastic bag filled with blood acted as a tether, his last connection to the earth below where his real body, st...

The poinsettia, a seasonal flower, longed for the dog days of summer, while the hydrangea longed for snow-capped hills.

Well, it was pretty time consuming, not going to lie, and you’ll probably have an easier time if you use Photoshop (although, I’m not sure how much easier since I don’t know ho...

Married for only two weeks, the Andersons of Corona really took the phrase “till death do us part” literally when they both committed suicide first with laudanum (which didn’t ...

There it was again. The headline scrolling on the bottom of my television screen. The one that I kept my television on for just a five second glimpse every ten minutes. I let the words sink in e...

Stepping over three bodies (two of them belonging to the Allies, one to the Germans), Private Bones runs through the trenches, clutching a folded piece of paper in his hand. “Fucking Kraut...

I sit in the living room of my house, surrounded by people whose faces barely register. They are all dressed in black. My son liked to dress in black and gray. I always asked him if he was going...

"The Motel Guinevere," I said to myself as I studied the red, neon sign. Right next to the name of the hotel was the words "No Vacancy" with the "No" unlit. I shouldered my heavy duffel bag and ...

I know her from somewhere, but where? Was she on a television show? No. Movie? I don’t think so. She doesn’t have the face for the big screen...wait—I know—No, wait, neve...

There's plenty of other fish in the sea. ------> There’s only one true fish for you.

“How did you get here?”

“Is this heaven?”

“Who let you in here?”

“Where are the girls?”

“Don...

I watched the movie for the one hundred and twenty-second time from beginning to end and fell in love with this movie all over again.

I have friends in many dark places.

We stand in no kid’s land,

eye to eye,

while holding out our hands,

we shake and say our good-byes.

No fight. No war,

until tomo...

The demonic din of the freeway interrupted his thoughts so he rolled up his window and thought of open road.

Where do bubbles go after they've popped?

The black and white film flickers as I dream of an airport in the rain.

There was a hole in the ceiling that led to no where so I climbed up into it and disappeared. 

You're my soul reimagined into a crime fighting superhero. 

There was an urgency in her nerves whenever she was on the edge of something grand.

I call her my wallet-size queen. She calls me her David-size king.

"I had a bad dream last night," I said to my friend. "I was in a room with a mountain of socks and none of them matched."

The tyrannosaurus rex mounted the rocket ship with only one thing in mind: get to the moon!

Before they became extinct, dinosaurs use to be astronauts, don't you know?

Leaning his head against the garden wall, he listened for any sounds, but all he heard was the breeze that carried the faint whisper of the flowers and trees. 

Realizing that I had been defeated, I said to my friend, "Best 6 out of 11?"

Wearing only a fez, vest, and a pair of pants, the man danced to the jingle of a music box for money. He didn't like the taste of his own medicine.

When he was around her, he talked in circles, always ending where he began.

One vulture said to the other, "Do you want the left eye ball or the right?"

The birds that use to live in my lungs have flown south for the winter so now I can't speak.

Let's shuffle our vinyl records like playing cards.

Having always stared up at it through the waters all her life, the mermaid couldn't help but fall in love with the sky.

Excuse me while I put on my adventure face.

They made moonrises for people like us.

Please stay on the line for the rest of your life.

Please stay tuned for more while we put you on hold.

Let's share our scar stories with each other.

Let me name the moons for you.

Blind since birth, she had never seen the stars. But when she pictured them in her mind, she'd describe them as fireworks.

Children grow up and turn into adults, but not me!

Do monster kids grow up dreaming of us?

The mother cow said to her calf, "there's no use crying over spilled grass."

At a dinner party, one penguin said to another, "you look positively dashing, old chap."

I read the newspaper today and realized the world wasn't just in back and white.

I think our definitions of super are very different.

I regret to inform you that our opinions differ. Please accept this basket of stale bread, fruit cake, and a hand knitted oversized vomit-green sweater with a cat on it. 

Ants see giants all the time. 

She's not afraid of the dark, but she's afraid of everything else.

The mermaid fell in love with the sky. One day, the sky fell.

The most beautiful woman Peter had ever seen walked into his studio. Looking at him over her sunglasses, she pointed at his latest project. “Pretty. What’s ...

           My grandma was wild. In 1951, my grandma snuck onto the track at the Indianapolis 500, got into one of the Formula One race cars, and did a few laps befo...

The town of Guinevere was located on the edge of a vast forest. If you were to walk one mile towards the center from any point around the edge, you would come across a hill. The hill was not vis...

The man who lived next door to my family had died. Our other neighbors were saying it was a heart attack and that when his elderly mom came to check up on him, she found him lying on the stairs....

The Fatherment.

Data entrails.

Byte raids.

Program rats.

And the motherboard.

The future don’t look too bright from here, ladies...

Annabelle watched through her bedroom window as the big, burly men carried the large brown boxes into the house—well, it wasn’t exactly her room. It didn’t feel

There aren’t flying cars or hover boards. No designer babies or mutant humans with super powers. But doesn’t it feel like we’re living in the future? We’ve got tiny compu...

Ae you the kind of person who "fights"? Or are you the opposite? Does it depend on the situation? What goes through your mind when flight or flight kicks in? 

What was it like being a teenager in the 80's, 90's, or 00's? Has a lot changed since then for you emotionally/mentally/spiritually? What do you miss the most from your adolescence? Did you hate...

Are you a cryer? When have you shed tears? During a movie or at a funeral? Have you ever laughed so hard you cried?

Two completely unrelated events that occur together in a meaningful way.

I've been writing this book about two bestfriends growing up in Venice/Culver City in SoCal and this is the first chapter.

 

Chapter 1

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            Gwen sat in the living room. She was nestled in between her parents on the three cushion couch. They were watching the lottery numbers being drawn....

I first notice the hole on a Monday. It was midnight on the dot when a black spot on the ceiling had caught my eye. Dragging my wooden desk chair to the center of my studio apartment, I stood up...

Mom is a quiet woman. Unlike most Filipino women, she doesn’t cook—doesn’t know how to make lumpia or chicken adobo or some other complicated Filipino...