There's a kind of tired where even coffee doesn't work.

This was one of Imogen's favorite times to drink a coffee. So long as she didn't need to do anything. In this case she didn't. Jack -- acting as Keith acting as an Englishman -- was driving and seemed to have...

"Mmm okay. Order ready in 15 - 20 minutes"

"Thanks. I'll see you soon."

"Oh. By the way. How did you hear about us? If you don't mind saying."

"My neighbor. He orders Ming's every day."

"Thanks. We are trying to figure out where are customers are coming from. Anyways, thank you for your...

Three months passed. No luck in finding the purse. Dave was getting worried. He'd never been this far behind. The client was unhappy. He had no leads. They were looking in the dark. He didn't even think there was a chance anymore. All the previous leads had gone cold and...

When he arrived at his apartment he was jolted. Sweat. Heartbeat.

The place had burned down.

Then he remembered. He and  Big Joe had done that. This was less than a day ago. Less than 14 hours.

God damn he was tired.  sun light soaked into his head. His eyes ached. Those pills...

Normal people didn't know what the inside of a bar looked like in daylight.  sun pouring through. Painting the floors and walls. Revealing dust floating in the air. You never noticed dust in the  dark . It was bright. And Quiet.

Darkness hid much.

With sound it was different Noise could...

At a rest stop off the desert highway, Denver took out a sanitized straight razor. The man in the expensive suit was snoring. The sun shining into his eyes as he drove had put him to sleep in the dead of day. The man refused to wear any of the...

When Denver woke up he couldn't move instead he was bruised and everything was painful. He could only remember the sun  being bright and his face felt burnt. When he woke up again he didn't know how he ended up surrounded by white. He drifted out of consciousness and when...

Denver at that point was hot sweat formed at the back of his neck, and he wiped it away. The bus was a relief from the heat, buts its ice cold ac stopped helping soon as they walked out of the door. Blue felt weird on the bus, like he'd...

The evening sun is deceptive. It feels like it might stay forever only to exit abruptly.

On our way to the airport I was squinting, trying not to be blinded. After seeing Ana off at the passenger drop-off, I drove home under violet swirls, the kind that makes you think God...

He returned to the apartment while it was still somewhat dark. Morning was just around the corner. The birdsong s scattered the noise into the air, and anxiety into him. An excitement. He wasn't even replaying the sensual scenes back in his mind. Instead he was replaying an idea of...

After learning of his acceptance into the Foreign Exchange Study program, the rest of his school year didn't seem to matter anymore. The days were all just filler until he finally got to go to go live his next life in the USA . Roger had grown up idolizing American...

He went to the post office twice a week to collect mail sent to the Non Profit he worked for. It was a small organization with a small budget, not enough for office space, barely enough to pay the wages of the team. Instead they listed their address as a...

The  deadline for the paper was  Friday two weeks ago.

This was the longest time I had gone past a deadline... initially I didn't even know it was possible. I remember Thursday night.... sitting in the library so late. Just when it was neither night or early morning. That's when they...

I think I write about the  sun a lot. People have probably written about the sun a lot. The only constant of our days for however long we have been a thing. I guess maybe even before that. Circadian rhythm. It’s found in plants animals and kind of everything in...

You are a daffodil, yellow like the sun .
or an emoji.
Hearts on your sleeve and chest and even forehead.
I should know because I've seen it first hand,
or back hand.
When it was better and we felt like going outside to meet people and when you weren't so afraid of that wall.
This...

After leaving her job, she didn't view time the same. Instead of using the 24 hours she began segmenting each day into six markers. There was no concept of seven o clock anymore.

This was her system:
The rooster crowing in the morning -- 1. The coffee -- 2. The first meal...

The day slipped away made loose by the sun .
I felt tired and hot and my throat sore so I took a test . 
Negative one line then I don't know why my throat is sore. 
It could be the many other microbes 🦠 trying to get at my energy.
I...

I was in a hurry today. But it was hard to be. 
My walk was too nice, too much  sun and birds were flying and singing. 
But I had a deadline, an important document that needed to be done by 9am. 
But seriously how can you not stop and smell...

The sky doesn't close.
And we should know because we chased down too many sun sets, even though they were as empty as the end of a rainbow. 
Over and over again, and what was it 10 k?
Even if its raining there is still an opening. 
You can see if...

Her back was to the windows with the blinds open so that the  shadow made her face black.

"I can't see you," he said. 

"What do you mean?"

"You're a shadow." He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as she walked over to the bed and now the  sun shined upon...

When he entered the  cafe , it was shadowed. Not dark, the  sun 's light made its way, filtered, to the main area where people were seated.

People were conversing, in hushed tones, now that the music was off. The person at the counter couldn't buy their coffee . The  barista...

The sky would descend on them any moment. Of this he was certain. He was trying to warn the others, they were walking together in a group of four, but he didn't want to spook them. How to let them know that soon the sky would be down here, where...

I wish I was the sun , a hot ball floating in the sky, and when people look at me they think well depends where they are. 
But a few options are, its so bright. Wow, look at that sunset. Or in Alaska, when will you set?

It would be nice...

The sun   was going down and it was warm. I know because my back was sweaty although it is most of the time. The sky was painted cotton candy colors, and the sea below gently breathed in and out changing the tugs of the moon to the bobbing of boats...