Frank Hinton lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and edits Metazen, a daily fiction site. Frank has been published in Lamination Colony, Kill Author, Necessary Fiction and is a nominee for Dnzac's Best of The Web.

DSC00001.jpg (January 20, 2011. Issue 24.)

My entire experience could be summed up in eight or nine pages. I am on display for you, bones and skin. Here and here. If you find a wet place you touch it. I want you to use invectives on me, lyrically. I want the sun to bake me white and red and gold. Lately I’ve been thinking about how many people are thinking about the world coming to an end. In Faenza thousands of dead doves fell from the sky. Forty-thousand dead crabs washed up on a beach in Kent. Two million dead fish were found floating in Chesapeake Bay. 500 dead blackbirds fell from the sky in Pointe Coupee. 100,000 drumfish died suddenly in Beebe. From the same sky 100,000 dead blackbirds fell. I watched Will Smith kill his dog in a movie. All of this happened in the first week of 2k11. I will check your nails before we sleep together. I will let you put me supine and use me as equipment. I will make the appropriate noises and let you finish where you wish. I AM SOFT AND LONELY. I AM SOFT AND LONELY. I killed a thousand insects as they climbed through the wax of my ears. I want to die and fall from the sky. If you read the pages of my life experience could you edit them in red? I like the taste of my t-shirt collar. I will never be some mother.