the loneliness of the long-distance runner

It has been a row of dull days rolling by like a bunch of waves bored from weeks of traveling across the endless oceans. Work didn’t make life more endurable, only slower. Weather was cool, as it always is before the final weekend of this month. Then, it tends to warm up out of nothing.
Reason [...]

a box of chocolate

Went running today. I felt so stiff, so tight. Couldn’t breathe right, like there was a ring of steel around my chest. I needed to clear out my brains, too much thinking trash which has accumulated there in the corners.
Too much chocolate, too, sticking to my hips.

I never want to open my eyes again

this is not working. it is NOT working. nothing. not in the least. what else can I do?
I tried to reason you out of my system. no way.
I tried to run you out of my system. I get faster by that, exhausted. that’s it.
I tried to work you out of my system. I’m home late [...]

stairs

He was running. Same route, higher speed. Heartrate beyond 170, beats almost a single sound. Wind and blood fighting in his ears for dominance. The heat of the day had a hold only in singular still sunny spots along the track. Mostly, the air had a wet coolness. Felt like running through a [...]

the crying of lot 49

He ran. Feet barely touching the ground, he ran. Head held high, arms pushing him forward, he ran. Breath coming in hard puffs, he ran. He ran fast. Way too fast for his general condition. He knew that. That’s why he ran that fast. The bushes in the little park were hardly more than a [...]