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Interpersonal Telescopic

By Joshua Chalifour, 1 March 2008

Starting off in the distance, where the gelatinous ocean rose in spots and dipped in others, waves rolled. Each following another as it finally dispersed itself into the fine sandy shore. One wave followed another but each grew again in the same place. It was impossible to follow one and not feel it also somehow [...]

Donned in Details

By Joshua Chalifour, 19 August 2007

He went around the side of the house and climbed over a broken fence. Climbing it was easy, the fence gave way, giving him way, and soon he’d stepped through enough waist-deep shrubs and weeds to gather their briars, hooks, and brown hitch-hiking bits from his pants for a bouquet of prickly plumes, which he [...]

Peer

By Joshua Chalifour, 18 May 2004

“Bring your meditations, I’ll have a great bowl of fruit.”

At the cliff, the two sat, legs dangling from the edge but feeling neither worry nor agitation. It was far enough to the bottom for fate to pronounce its name–but not so far that people lost their detail. Waves rolled toward the base of the cliff [...]

A Park, One Time, was but Three Steps from Memory

By Joshua Chalifour, 19 August 2003

Jesus, I was just going about my business. I get a lot done–or I try to anyway, but I get blind sometimes. I don’t mean I have problems with my eyes, which actually I do, but that I forget what I am. I forget the whole business, just the whole world. It just goes on [...]

X Number of Windows

By Joshua Chalifour, 4 May 2002

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Night Three Morning Four

By Joshua Chalifour, 5 December 1998

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Moments: Blackmail and Deed

By Joshua Chalifour, 13 July 1998

Things happen but nothing is apparent.
A dry, dusty, day and yet there was dampness in the form of mud. The day itself wasn’t dry and dusty, that’s a slight of hand. If it wasn’t a slight of hand, days would be astonishing things. Any day that one might come to this spot, one would see [...]

Slick and the Rags

By Joshua Chalifour, 31 July 1995

Characters:

Tilly
James
Marlowe
Boy

J: Quick Marlowe, we’ve got to hide ‘er.
M: In the shed, James, it’s dark in the shed!
J: How many bullets did she get again?