Browsing All posts tagged under »FRANK«

Cat Sitting: Part Three

May 26, 2009

0

THE CD PLAYER IS VERY APPARENT and Amy Mann’s volume increases in my mind. I start to feel like she is actually sitting in the next room performing. This doesn’t seem out of the question, it doesn’t seem odd at all. I slide off the chair onto the floor and crawl into the living room […]

Cat-Sitting: Part Two

May 25, 2009

0

WHEN I WAKE UP the world is new. The bus slows down as it enters the town limits and we stop just out side the Student Union building at the town University. I used to work in this building and I still have a key that grants me access to any room within. It is […]

Cat-Sitting: Part One

May 24, 2009

0

I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO, so I decide to cat-sit for my friend. She is a doll, everything a hipster should be and I feel like the Karmic cash-in for sitting her cats would be off the charts. She lives about an hour and a half away, so I hop on a bus and […]

Popsicle

May 20, 2009

0

“Do you want to come over to my house?” I asked. “I have a lot of cool toys in my basement and my dad set up a tent downstairs. It’s filled with pillows and paper and crayons. We can make comics.” “Sure,” she said. My parents weren’t home and my grandmother was sleeping, so we […]

Too Much Kashi

May 19, 2009

0

Tuesday We arrive home to a mailbox full of bills. My girlfriend indicates that cell phone bill is “too high.” She tells me to call the phone company. I listen to pop music on hold for twenty seven minutes. A woman answers and I tell her there is a problem with my bill. She begins […]

Wishbone

May 18, 2009

0

One day grandmother pulled a turkey’s wishbone down from the cupboard and held it out to me between her two fingers, dangling it like one would dangle a treat over a dog’s head. The bone my grandmother held out on that day was a particularly large one. She had saved it for months after Thanksgiving […]

The Vent People

May 11, 2009

0

IT WAS NICE to have a private bathroom, as I was completely unable to relieve myself in the presence of another human being or animal. I decided to relieve my mind of thought watching and pulled myself into the bathroom where I locked the door and placed a thick magazine under the bottom gap of […]