CIRCUSITCH

In the dark, for fun’s sake, I recalled the heat from his skin. How we slept side by side, amidst throngs of drunk and sleepy people crammed in the tiny, utilitarian room that smelled like dried cement and salty water. The heat from his skin transfered through the thin cotton of my tshirt, and even [...]

If there is one thing I miss lately, it’s the absence of stress and routine. Of course, I’m not crazy, I don’t wish for them to happen now, I just miss having it govern my life like it did when I was a student. Missing only happens when you acknowledge the absence; whether you [...]

When my brother break hearts, or hearts break him, he shoots hoops. When it happens to me, I hole up in my room, willing myself to disappear. “Come on,” my brother would say from the door, half a foot into the room. “Snap out of it,” he says. A moment later I hear the thump [...]

There is one place where I lose all reasoning and principles and self-restraint, and that place is called a bookstore. I’m always good with money management, but this time the smell of paper and ink defies all. It got to be so bad that I am aware of the losing battle I get myself into [...]