off-season

There are two older women together on the cliff. They do not have poles, they are fishing with their hands, moving the line between their fingertips as if they are seamstresses, human sewing machines. They are perched on the rock’s edge, oblivious to the precarious angles their feet make, hovering above the sea, a gust … More off-season

Slow Monday

Five kids keep glancing around to see if anyone is watching. When they suspect the coast is clear, one student reaches for the spray paint can in the middle of their table, thus far untouched. In his hands is black spray paint. Behind him is a white wall. I brace myself to interrupt their vandalism. … More Slow Monday