• Zach S commented on the post, dysfunctional 8 months, 1 week ago

    Online relationships between a desperate teenage boy with a webcam and another man who watches aren’t usually very simple. The boy pretends the other man is a girl, and the other man plays along but knows the boy […]

  • Zach S commented on the post, headphones 8 months, 1 week ago

    Breed bleeding eardrums
    and mute ex-lovers
    but at least you have something to listen to while you mow the lawn

  • Zach S commented on the post, stillness 8 months, 1 week ago

    Late in the afternoon storm clouds pile up in the west and blot out the sun. Twilight comes early, the dusty golden beams in the attic vanish and two boys, touching for the first time, hesitate as a static spark […]

  • Zach S commented on the post, whether 8 months, 1 week ago

    The boy ran along the edge of the lake. “WOOSH!” he shouted as he pushed his little toy boat along through the shallows. If I wasn’t a crocodile, I might have thought whether or not I should kill the kid. But I […]

  • Zach S commented on the post, magazines 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Inserted raw, as dangerous as any other foreign insertion, and lacking of any latex protection I might add. They are the ammo that changes lives.

  • Zach S commented on the post, refuse 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    “Yes, yes, why of course!” I never saw her again. That’s usually the way of things.

  • Zach S commented on the post, carbon 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Ticking clocks around the world care little for the wilting orchids that don’t flower this season.

  • Zach S commented on the post, manners 9 months, 1 week ago

    She always had manners. It was more out of fear than honor or propriety, but when it comes down to it, what’s the difference? She still sat silently and smiled at her elders, and the cold eyes and clenched jaw […]

  • Zach S commented on the post, dare 9 months, 2 weeks ago

    Every day we would wake up early, and go climb, or go dig. It was always one or the other. We could never find fun on the regular solid ground. And each day we would go higher, or deeper, pushing our bravery a few […]