Thanks to everyone who has supported and contributed to “The Underground Novel”! The first chapter on Wattpad has 327 views and counting. Not bad for a slacker novel written mostly on lunch breaks! Let’s keep it going! If you have a chance, please: 1 – recommend the book to friends 2 – comment on or … Continue reading →

She calls me right before to tell me not to worry too much. Her abusive boyfriend has left her and so now she’s going to kill herself. She tells me how she’s going to do it. Dramatically, in a voice cut off sporadically by sobs, she tells me that she’s going to cut her wrists … Continue reading →

After years of fighting, pointless bickering, we materialize someplace with no walls, no boundaries. It takes in the air effortlessly and produces us as two people in our twenties. I sit in the cafeteria of the university and think: all I have to do is ignore her and this whole thing goes away. Our two … Continue reading →

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Where is your dream, nomad? Do you keep it under your fingernails, between your teeth, or behind your ear where you never wash? Is it rank? Is it rotten? Or does it smell fresh like a dewy meadow in old Lassy episodes? Do you put it over your T.V., on your shelf, or do you … Continue reading →

It was hard to believe there had been a time when she had loved Scott. Looking back, though, it made sense. When you’re young, vulnerable, it’s easy to fall in love with a man who can do things. You think to yourself, God, finally someone who doesn’t bore me. Someone who can make the earth … Continue reading →