The Bruin's Blog – September 2009 Archive (2)

He sees blasted lands. Skeleton trees scrape sullen gray skies as pale yellow spots of grass tear at the soil. Dark dirt hedges block panoramic vistas of rot and disease. Birds drop from the sky like raindrops, each one striking the ground with an ear-rending snap of bones and mushrooms grow cloudlike from the scorched soil like miniature forests too poisonous to touch.



Queer time expands and retracts like a headache. Roads of aged and cracked asphalt lay stranded between hillocks of… Continue

A three year old boy develops a cough and a fever. His parents sever his head and burn his body in a field beneath a hunter’s moon. It was only a cold.



In Ireland, a man finds gold at the end of the rainbow. He steps outside and embraces the only sunrise he has seen in three months. It is the last sun he ever sees.



In the Gulf of Mexico, a woman watches the shoreline from the deck of a stolen commercial fishing boat in the early morning light. She is Captain, First Mate… Continue