Experiments in Experimental Short Fiction

!) once i was a strip of wallpaper that was listlessly saying hello to the door and goodbye to the window. i miss the sunlight even though it dried me out.

@) a red ball launched, rebounding, bouncing off doors and lockers. aglets of chuck taylor sneakers click clacking their way down to the principal's office. a ferret runs free in the hall.

#) bubblegum snapping and girls deciding who is in and who is out. black is the new orange they say. who made them god?

$) oncewheniwasyounger
itriedtocirclemyarmsaroundtheoldelmtreeintheyard
andilaughedandsmiledandsquealed
butthenranawayattherattlingscamperofsquirrels.

%) his arms became fatigued earlier than he expected, and he starting getting short of breath. with every new lift of his increasingly heavy arms, he struggled to grasp those blessed vines. with the strength of atlas he managed not to ever ever look down to the ground where the little people lived. he had bigger dreams of the sky, but it was getting hard to breathe. the air is thinner in the clouds.

^) crash i never want to see you again whack bang thwok i mean it don't you ever step foor in this house again you bastard crash bang crash but i love you


peace,
~mr_schwartz