AlexCuervo

I watch him sleeping on the floor on the other side of the room. I should wake him, he's been asleep for two hours; he won't be able to sleep properly tonight. Yet, I do not move, I dare not make a sound. I listen to his quiet snoring.The dark blue tint the sky has bestowed upon the room is strangely discomfiting. The quiet hush of rain makes the quiet of the room more intense, the darkness seems to make him feel miles away from me. But his breathing, his sleeping, contrasts everything.The longer I watch the more drawn I feel to drowse. The more I listen. The more I want to lay next to him.It's just the two of us tonight. The other two ar...

The rain has just stopped, the sun has begun to pierce the clouds. The late afternoon sun paints the clouded city in a warm orange light highlighting faces of buildings and casting stark shadows on others. Cars drive, the city moves, people come and go.Some people go to a specific part of the city. In the shadow of a tall building is an old-fashioned diner. This diner seems like the city was built around it and so it does not quite stand out; but it would seem quite at home in the middle of nowhere on a long stretch of country road where someone would have to drive miles to get to it.The diner’s exterior lighting has not come on yet but it...

The house is quiet and dark. The bathroom is dark and so my eyes open wide. I smell the stale, unmoving air. I try not to move too much so I don’t splash. I like thinking about Todd. Todd is my friend. He is warm and he glows and he is nice. Todd is asleep in the hearth of the fireplace. That’s the only place that is safe for him to sleep.Todd has small horns on his head.They are black with red stripes. I like to touch his horns. He has black hair with red stripes in it. He has red spirals all over his body. They glow at night with his red eyes. He is always warm to me, he never burns me, dries me sometimes, but never burns me like the car...

If you will, humor me for a few moments.Imagine a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood. It is dark, but the yellow-orange glow of sodium street lights illuminates the section of street in front of a house, most of the front yard and parts of the front of the house.The front of the house has a covered porch. The porch has many of the usual things a porch might have. A pair of bicycles, well used and going to be used. There is a garden hose coiled up, not neatly, but not a total mess either. There is a small table next to a porch swing. The porch swing seats two comfortably. The swing has two that are comfortably occupying it. The two sit qu...

The desert night seems strangely warm, even to Solomon. The night is silent save for the occasional pop of firewood. He is restless and so sits up facing the fire. He looks to his companion, Kira, sleeping peacefully. He gazes at the fire and jumps.Solomon's stomach nearly drops when he sees the stranger sitting casually across from him at the fire. But not just a stranger; this stranger is wearing a mask. The mask is the skull of a very large bird with a very long beak. There are very large holes where, presumably eyes would have been. Those holes are very dark in the light of the fire. Shortly behind the eye holes, along the face of the ...