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Micro-essays, short poems inspired by various Instagram photos.

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Sheriff arrived in a bomber jacket, church women were already at the court house making diesel-grade coffee in civil defense urns. A missing salesman's sedan had just turned up in a cold corner of Polk County

"Mob guy in San Quentin told me once if you ever bust out, get a sweater vest-it makes you look respectable and respectable means you're invisible. At the time I was like you gotta be kiddin' me that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. But here I am some 40 years later in a vest and still out of jail."

"If you can't wear it, eat it, or wipe with it you don't buy it. Never let yourself get tired of running. Never let yourself get stupid enough to tell someone where you're goin'."

In the calm before the crime spree.

"When glory wore rented shoes."

"Louis didn't mind going to the mattresses so much."

"Sometimes we'd get up Sunday morning and watch the jazz musicians adjust to the sunlight."

"The fishmonger was a reluctant clairvoyant who helped detectives solve serial murders and find the occasional missing steamship heiress."

"There was too much hard laughing at a not so funny joke, a lot of turquoise jewelry for one man to wear all at once, and a pistol with a shiny spot where the serial number used to be."

"They called it a grudge match because why else would you fight for a $65 purse?" #boxing #chicago #1920s

"They called it a grudge match because why else would you fight for a $65 purse?" #boxing #chicago #1920s #microfiction #nanofiction

"Howard Hughes looked at me then looked at the keyboard and said, 'You type it.'" #typewriter

"Did you say something?" "I didn't say anything..." #horror

"About six beers in Hank is yellin' at the ice cream guy to stop ringing the bell or he was going to put his back in the dirt. And just like that the pool was empty and summer was over." #chicago #summer

Donna's American Gothic. #americana

The Instagram Stories

Micro-essays, short poems inspired by various Instagram photos.

106 Pins

Collection by

"If you can't wear it, eat it, or wipe with it you don't buy it. Never let yourself get tired of running. Never let yourself get stupid enough to tell someone where you're goin'."

In the calm before the crime spree.

"When glory wore rented shoes."

"Louis didn't mind going to the mattresses so much."

"Sometimes we'd get up Sunday morning and watch the jazz musicians adjust to the sunlight."

"The fishmonger was a reluctant clairvoyant who helped detectives solve serial murders and find the occasional missing steamship heiress."

"There was too much hard laughing at a not so funny joke, a lot of turquoise jewelry for one man to wear all at once, and a pistol with a shiny spot where the serial number used to be."

"They called it a grudge match because why else would you fight for a $65 purse?" #boxing #chicago #1920s

"They called it a grudge match because why else would you fight for a $65 purse?" #boxing #chicago #1920s #microfiction #nanofiction

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Howard

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