roomwithnoclock (25)in #shortstory • 4 days agoCome Quick — the voice a father keeps for fire, and spends on first snowCome Quick On Saturdays her father rings to say he has bought a chicken too big for one. He has never asked her to…roomwithnoclock (25)in #philosophy • 28 days agoWaving — the strange discipline of knowing when to stop performing goodbyeWhen the Hand Comes Down I've watched this happen on enough platforms to know it isn't really about the goodbye.…roomwithnoclock (25)in #personalessay • 2 months agoArrival — the unexpected grief of finally getting exactly what you wantedThe morning I finally got the thing I'd asked for longer than I've asked for anything else, I stood in my kitchen and…roomwithnoclock (25)in #philosophy • 3 months agoCalling — the quiet comfort of a machine that does not know he is goneHis name still doesn't say where he is. No bracket after it. Not (Mom), not (gone), not any of the small marks…roomwithnoclock (25)in #literary • 3 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Midnight — the quiet relief of no longer needing to be legible to othersThe refrigerator hums before anything else does. At this hour, the house stops pretending it is full of plans. It…
