Flirting in Space

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  • Roulette

    “I’m dead. Aren’t I?” the girl asked as a roulette machine dropped from the bar ceiling like a chandelier. The barman looked up at her for the first time since she came in. He set the glass in his hand down and nodded toward a velvet chair suspended mid-air. “Sit.” “I’m not jumping up.” The…

  • To You, 229 years ago

    I bought your copy of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner from a second hand bookseller in New York. Only your first initial, “I”, is on the first page. I don’t know your full name.But I know you from the margins, the handwriting, the way you annotate. Most of the time, your annotations are controlled…

  • Eden

    Smoke curls,Not from the burning cigarette in my mouthBut from the remains of the one on the plate.One puff to eclipse the south,I yearn, quietly, for a clean slate. Another exhale.My eyes dart to the pack,And even if the cigarettes are stale,They’re new enough to fill the crack. Third puff.Potency dissolves,Even if the nicotine is…