My Body Planned Something

WE WERE heading east to pick up the samples from the army depot. Our 29th time on I-40. The return trip would be number 30.

“I probably put out more CO2 doing this job than the company cleans up at the site!”

My body had looked up some figures. It should stop looking up figures. Idle hands, devil’s workshop, hasty conclusions.

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Exit Interview

You needed me more than I needed you.
I retired Friday of Labor Day Weekend,
eight months after I told the boss off
for the first time, four days in a row,
my product manager told him to sit down.

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Don't Get Lost In Heaven

AT 11.23PM on the 31st of October 2020 an unknown and unidentified aircraft appeared in airspace directly above London. The aircraft was and has remained motionless and uncontactable to date. On the same day an MP4 was discovered in the cloud archive of the Department of Metaphysics, Hillingdon Facility, apparently pertaining to the incident. This is a transcript of that file.

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Stink Ape Resurrection Primer

“YOUR FUCKING ocean is on fire.” The blob of glowing plasma pleaded in disbelief.

The panel of thirteen human representatives exchanged hushed glances. One of the humans spoke as the whispers subsided: “It strikes us as suspicious that you’re this concerned with our resources.”

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Black Dime

REMEMBER WHEN you stung like a bee, leaving your ink all over the kitchen floor and the orchids in the kitchen window never seemed to notice how drab the sun had become over the years? It makes no sense. All languages die in the gap. So, don’t speak. There’s no reason to give voice to our discontents. We are driving and the bridge is a snake crossing the snaking water ways. I became possessed with your hand on the back of my neck. I know you by the smell of lavender and tea. Don’t blink. Never blink again. We have all the time there ever was.

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