Odious Awry

Odious Awry

Aug
13
Happy Hour

Happy Hour

Chapter 6: What a blessing to have figured it out, to be here once again at The Roses for this evening sun–though it’s funny I hardly remember leaving last night. Scratch that I don’t remember at all–was I really that wasted?
11 min read
Jul
22
unhome

unhome

Chapter Five: “Wait, wait…” I said. “Are you calling the police?” to which they nodded, the phone already pressed to their ear. “No, please don’t do that. Not yet.” “Why not?” “Because,” I said, “I’m not totally sure it was real.”
12 min read
Jun
10
Dean & The Golden Ratio

Dean & The Golden Ratio

Chapter 4: The place would either be a claustrophobic closet or a palace of unimaginable dimensions, expanding and contracted according to its own specific physics...but there was also a feeling, unshakeable at times, that something was pushing back at me.
18 min read
May
26
a stone in a stream

a stone in a stream

I lay there, feeling other versions of myself on other timelines that rippled out and occasionally intersected with one another, stretching into infinity.
9 min read
Apr
21
love is telepathic

love is telepathic

Instead of coldly calculating the correct emotional response, the most human among us are laughing out loud at the saddest parts and living strange lives as they forever reach for the golden string.
5 min read
Apr
17
Nada & the New Style

Nada & the New Style

Chapter 3: No news, no obligations, no parties to try and pull myself together for. Just the two of us, me helping her create a revolution with art, like lassoing a satellite spun out of orbit, and beaming its frequency into the darkness.
15 min read
Mar
07
casper [at] the roses.

casper [at] the roses.

Chapter 2: There are times when I think about going somewhere new, somewhere I’ve never been before where I can learn to write again... But if I left Brooklyn, I wouldn’t be able to drink at The Roses every day.
12 min read
Feb
10
eden

eden

Chapter 1: Eden's a baby-faced model who lives in a perfect tiny apartment with its own viral IG account.
13 min read
Jan
17
Aluminum & Ash

Aluminum & Ash

Odious here, calling out from between the micro blinds. This is the first post for the serial I’m dropping, and I don’t know if it’s Covid or some other vampiric suck on my energy, but I’ve been dragging through every sentence.
17 min read
Nov
20
Vast Active Living Intelligence System

Vast Active Living Intelligence System

“I can take the form of anyone, anywhere, and at any time.”
9 min read