beach ii

The guitar player speaks the lyrics in a whisper that fades in and out. The snap and crackle of the bonfire drowns his voice, but not the chords. They’re not perfect. A string missed, here and there.
He stops and picks up the whisky bottle. They all look at him as he swigs. They speak in [...]

aesthetics

No. She’s not beautiful. Or if she is, you’re not allowed to know she is. You can’t know she is.
I don’t get it.
No. You don’t.
But she’s hot!
Hot is fine. She is hot. But she’s not beautiful.
Right. I still don’t –
I know.
she smiles.
he shifts and takes a sip from the bottle between them.
Beauty [...]

beach i

He wiggled his toes in the sand, feeling the cool grains slide between them. His clothes smelled of bonfire, his hands streaked with coal. The sea sat still.
She walked among the rocks the tide revealed, stepping lightly, eyes on her feet then back to the horizon. Once or twice she looked back to the [...]

Night walk.

The cat walked along the sidewalk. It was fast, but not obviously so. Once in awhile its eyes caught a streetlight and flashed with emerald luminescence.
It was not hurrying, but it was fast.
It traversed the large ficus roots that tore through the sidewalk in front of the abandoned school without bother. The leaves [...]