Monthly Archives: June 2019

Mirror Mirror

Posted on June 28, 2019 by John Biscello

The woman, fronting a fable, wondered– Am I the cause, or the effect? No answer forthcoming, she considered splitting, before she turned her back on herself and left.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Wide Angle

Posted on June 27, 2019 by John Biscello

The waiting wasn’t anything new. It was the open spaces, the promise of breathing room, which was eerily unfamiliar. She catalogued what she had packed, and what she had left behind,. while assuming the burden of distance to match the … Continue reading →

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Living Room

Posted on June 27, 2019 by John Biscello

It had become a question of values, and proper arrangement. She had burned with a nightly longing to know the deathly stillness of essential props, as if life was in the market for high-end interior models to place first.   … Continue reading →

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Floe

Posted on June 27, 2019 by John Biscello

A tableaux of modern gothic, modeling the claims of dying light– To go gently, or to rage within a facade of ice?   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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What Dreams May Leave

Posted on June 27, 2019 by John Biscello

Her dreams possessed the symmetry of a sorrow undisclosed to the dreamer who borrowed her body to model alleged reality.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Sight-Line

Posted on June 26, 2019 by John Biscello

Did you want a bitch, or a super-heroine? Or perhaps just a mop and bucket for sticky linoleum, for hangovers that crawl into high-rise offices? Whatever it is you want or need, forget me, I’m not the “it” tagged in … Continue reading →

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Shelf Life

Posted on June 26, 2019 by John Biscello

Perhaps he was right, and God did wear bi-focals– Fiction left her cold.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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No Looking Back

Posted on June 26, 2019 by John Biscello

It had been a long hard winter. Discontent brewed and bubbled like witches tits in a seething cauldron. She had decided once and for all to fuck spring right between the eyes with the last of her husband’s whittled pride. … Continue reading →

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Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on June 26, 2019 by John Biscello

Letter from Wonderland– Dear Miss So-and-So, Your husband injured himself chasing a young girl in fuzzy pink rabbit ears down a dark narrow hole. Do not expect him home any time soon. Yours Truly, A Secret Admirer.   (Photo by … Continue reading →

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Homesick

Posted on June 25, 2019 by John Biscello

It had been a night to forget, many were. She blamed the moon, because it was there, a mocking bauble belonging to someone else’s idea of munificent and festive. The scraping at the back of her brain would stop any … Continue reading →

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