Society – Page 608 – Out of the Wilderness

Blueberries

They say blueberries are good for your memory. So lately, I’ve been eating a lot of blueberries. Except on Wednesdays because, y’know, there are some things I want to forget. -Out of the Wilderness

Orelectic. A word that made so much sense in my dream. I was in a restaurant. I was leaving when the hostess asked me for a noun. I thought, “Denim overalls. Perfect.” The Mad Libs sentence finished with ‘orelectic green.’ I remember thinking that it’s a color I’d never heard of but sounds like aContinue reading “Orelectic Green”

In My Dream, All I Wear are Green Overalls.

I was leaving a restaurant when the hostess asked if I could give her a noun, Mad Libs style. So I wrote in “denim overalls.” The final sentence: In my dream, all I wear are denim overalls in orelectic green. She was going to read the sentence to the entire restaurant. The bad news: I’ll never know ifContinue reading “In My Dream, All I Wear are Green Overalls.”

There’s Something About That Name

“Kings and kingdoms shall all pass away But there’s something about that name.” It was the end of an evening, a fleeting moment. We were gathering our things to leave. Our coats. Our keys. The leftover food from dinner. A few Bibles. I glanced over to see a friend take a bowl that was stackedContinue reading “There’s Something About That Name”

Not Unlike Grace Potter

“Stars, they make me wonder where you are. Stars, up on heaven’s boulevard. And if I know you at all, I know you’ve gone too far. So I, I can’t look at the stars.” Not unlike Grace Potter, I tried coming up with a list of what I can’t do because of a past relationship. For Grace, oneContinue reading “Not Unlike Grace Potter”