Alienation Stories

A nineteen year old girl walks along a lake watching the sky light up in a purple and green hue. This is the fourth time this summer she’d seen figures in the stars. Her face shines from a light pointed directly at her from above. “Ellieeee” a voice whispers. “We’ll be there soon”. Ellie Rose sighed as she slipped her silk “Do not disturb” eye mask over her face and breathed in the stale air of the plane. 35,000 feet in t...

In the days of the First People’s Republic, there were two friends. I say friends – but actually, they lived a long way apart. One lived in the great city of Bilbao, by the banks of the Mississippi. A proletarian under the rule of the Republic, he laboured all day in the stockyards. The other lived in a farmhouse atop a hill halfway between Szechwan and Surabaya. A peasant in the lands of the Grand Duke, she tilled the ea...

If yesterday’s failures were relived again, I could go back to make each a success, Then there would be something to live for each day, When I’ve awakened the answer that slept with my pain.   Autistic thoughts stole the past that it tore, And going back only empties my future, With its lost years that are never redeemed; Life is nothing, when everything I deplore.   Soap opera afternoons and window shopping to no end, Or...

You walk by Swallowing the sky, Where it’s not at And neither am I.   Lick my wounds Where overhang, The bloodless battle Whose victory rang.   My thoughts I’ve squandered Where no one hears, Pain is so silent - Grant me your tears.   Laugh at me Whilst I might try, And though it’s cruel, Could you care why?   Look at me, As I am bound To your ignorance, You’ve not yet found.   Touch my eyes That blankets emptiness, And g...

There was a meadow, where I would chase through, Where emerald blades, welcome, fulfilled Butterflies and I, who’d always pursue; Driven by the thoughts, not yet stilled.   The springs of my needs abound so lonely; From your short breaths, I’d felt a voice, But empathy is lost, in the jars, where they’re only - The way I kept you, for I had no choice.   As I think in the shade of my next ordained flight, Beneath me, your...