“I win you heartless, piece of shit,” He screamed at the silent truck, “I beat you you motherfu…” Suddenly, lights blinked on in the cab. The engine burped and burst into life. The truck shook, rumbled and then, slowly it started to roll away. It picked up speed and moved fast. Jason followed it for… Continue Reading
“Can I come,” she asked and he said no, “Why not?’ She persisted. “Because …” he said, “because too many things could go wrong, because …we could get caught.” “So,” she said getting off his bed and standing over him at the desk, watching him stare at the screen, “I don’t care if I get… Continue Reading
“So, that’s what should happen, in theory,” he said and stood over her looking at the computer. “What happens if it works and the trucks … Stop?” She stood up and faced him. He had no answer. He had planned only this far. Stop the auto-drivers. Stop the thing that took his father’s job away.… Continue Reading
“Are you trying to make them explode?” Tracy had asked him when he showed her the work. She wasn’t a technical girl, but, she was a girl. A girl that actually talked to him, paid attention him, didn’t treat him like the other girls and, frankly, the guys at school did. He was a geek… Continue Reading
From his bedroom to the highway was a seven minute walk, in the day light. It was easy, the field was wide open and you could see the holes, the wires, the ant hills. At night, it was not so easy. At night, you had to know the path or you could break an ankle,… Continue Reading
“Something has to change, Trevor,” she said after a moment, “this … this just sucks.” She swept her hand across the landscape of trash, grime and nothingness. He agreed with her but said there was not much to be done. “Money rules,” he said, “ I know you got screwed pretty bad with the auto-drive… Continue Reading
“Small bag,” she said and he looked at her, “just a small bag.” He nodded and steered them into an alley. They walked to end, moved under the bare bulb on the wall by the back door of a long empty deli. He opened his coat and pulled a small bag of grain from a… Continue Reading
“Fuck you, you automatic shit stain,” she screamed into the sound, into the dark, into the useless, “fucking auto-drivers,” she mumbled harshly as she turned back to Trevor. Poor guy was still standing there, still with his eyes closed, Still hoping he was going to get that kiss. She watched him for a moment. “Who’s… Continue Reading
“Trevor, doll,” Ariel said and the shadow voice, now made flesh, laughed loud, “how are you tonight?” Trevor smiled into the darkness, not able to pin point where Ariel was. Her voice here now there. He moved slow in his light, like an actor sizing up his audience. “I’m fine, white girl,” Trevor said, facing… Continue Reading
On a corner, under a street lamp that flickered toward it’s slow death, a death that would be ignored by the city DPW because no one really cared about that part of town. No one really gave shit about the street lights, roads, benches, the garbage that moved like waves down alleys and across parks.… Continue Reading