Phantom Trash

Forsaken lore and Waking paralysis dreams

He Who Eats Beer

Things are bad. My pre-frontal cortex has reached such miserable spectral mass that my head can’t even contain it. There are ghosts coming out of my ears and tear ducts at all hours of the day. One of them rings a bell in the corner of my room. Another one, at night,...

HERE IT IS

Here is the stone of the philosopher. If you rub it, your ribs will enlarge and you’ll look like some kind of human cage. You’ll also understand pretty much everything and have answers to life’s most difficult questions like, “What should I wear today that will...

Hullabaloo

My hand and wrist are so small that it looks like I’m 1/40 Cabbage Patch Kid. The hand is little and fat and feels like fabric and the fingers are stitched together. My forearm goes from regular flesh and starts tapering down until it’s this thin little...

In Sickness and in Health, We Marry Ourselves

Must be a syndrome. I get up, hit the wall until there’s a hole in it, and then do some other stuff before going back to sleep. I’m conscious of it. It’s not like I’m sleep walking. I’m just really, really compelled to do it. I make the wall holes five times a night,...