Litbreak Magazine

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021

Not Much to Look At

My parents were always looking for adventures for us. Growing up in Boron, a small Mojave desert town, about an hour from the nearest incorporated city could easily lead to boredom. There were no movie theatres, no malls, not even a chain grocery store to entertain us. The population of about two thousand only accounted for one small food mart and three family-owned restaurants. So, when John suggested taking us up Saddleback Mountain my mother and father jumped at the opportunity of something new.

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021

Disembodied

A signature is like a floating head above the water What you see from the shore is enough to call help.

June 13, 2021June 15, 2021

Try the Clouds; One Star; Telling the Myth; A Tenth of My Normal Size, I Fly on a Bird; I Believe in the TV Family

Don’t bring me near the cat

because you think you can fly away.

I’m nothing but a doll to you,

but I have human skin and eyes,

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021

What Narcissism Meant to Me: My Entry into the Poetry World

I didn’t really want to write anything very long, and I didn’t feel I was cut out for a novel. Instead, I started going to poetry slams, reading poems that I wrote out of humor and for fun.

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021

The Boarding House

The room was advertised as a sun-filled, spacious double with inbuilt wardrobes and the listing included photos of a bed frame with sagging timber slats, an off-kilter hills hoist in a concrete back yard, and a narrow linoleum kitchen. No couples, pets or smoking. Available immediately and no references required.

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

Tentatively All In

Cynthia starts keeping her balcony sliding door open. She’d starts dressing more in her new clothes and doing her face even when she just plans on staying home. And when she hears Jane’s balcony door open, and starts to smell smoke, she more often than not manufactures casualness and goes out to see Jane. They catch up as much as anyone can in this time. Most of the time they’d just watch the quiet street in silence.