Tag: vignette

• March 4, 2023

  franchises.

  Franchise growth splices conformity with judgment set in patterns, civil agreements like consumer surveys in exchange for coin, or taxes for safety, or bread for toast.Leather chairs fixed in cross stitch, humble the dignitaries spine by bending a supposed lean back affirmation, fingers intertwined and placed in their lap, suggesting sinister knowledge and bone density…
• December 1, 2021

  An Appeal to the Simulation

  “There is no aphrodisiac like innocence”― Jean Baudrillard Two 20 (dollar) bills  Were set parallel  On Tay’s dresser.  “I can’t tell.” He said, grabbing and  Escorting a buck to his desk lamp. He held it before a light-beam.  The money functioned like a lens cover,  Casting a mossy green spot-light Across the room, ending inside a…
• November 14, 2020

  turkey.

  The playwright stared ahead, squinted and stood off her chair. She approached the baby-blue wall, put her hand flat against the plaster, it was cooler than the air in the room and made her think of flipping her pillow over at night to contend with the transference of her warm cheek to cotton, welcoming the…
• November 5, 2020

  Conforming to What’s Might Makes Right

  After the city laborer finished mowing, the outskirts were hemmed with grass clippings designated to the specifications per popular opinion, per tax sponsored research.  The landscape inspector was equipped with spectacles containing magnified lenses to examine each grass blade, searching for a misuse of “company time,” on hands and knees, he discovered one blade half…