They begin as small trespassesa voice leaning closer than speech,a chord that admits what the mouth won’t.Love songs promise forever in borrowed light,folding ordinary days into something luminous,teaching the heart […]

It began as a perfectly respectable synthesizer. Oscillators, filters, envelopes. Knobs that did what they were told. A panel that rewarded intention with predictable consequence. It lived in a studio […]

Sharp chords in the darkdrums pulse like a warning heartsilence looks away

He took songs literally. This was not a flaw he recognized as such. It felt like honesty. If a lyric said something, he believed the lyric. If a song declared […]

Inside the theatre, the touring acts had lighting plots, riders, and fees that could cover rent for a month. Outside, he had plastic, a pair of sticks, and a spot […]

He didn’t quit the trumpet in a dramatic way. No last note held into the ceiling. He just started answering different emails. There was a job. Reliable, which is a […]

He didn’t take revenge. That would have been obvious. The fantasy version where the past is exposed under academic lighting. He imagined those versions. Anyone would. Jill sat in the […]

He counts not sheep but measures,bars that won’t resolve.The night hums like a broken amphe cannot turn off. Each thought returns in minor keys,unsettled, incomplete.He fears the fix is something […]

He’d been ripped off enough times to develop a ritual. Not a legal strategy. Not a spreadsheet. But a question. “What would Tuco Salamanca from Breaking Bad, do?” It started […]