The blue chair passenger—a living room alien—is hunting beasts in the before time, sitting on the royal color as a type of time travel. Seat threads pulled in spaghetti spackle with strings that escape fabric, painted upholstery with hyacinth blossoms shaped into a flower wreath around the passenger’s face. The cushion continues to move backwards through time and faces shift to match the drive of the measure—never leaving the living room there are banana leaves sculpted into a fan to dry the passenger’s sweat. He lurches to the motion of a bed on top of an elephant that only he can see. Sagittal plane movements, the rocking of self-soothing; the spacecraft bounces to the final part of flight—the flying traveler returns with his feet fused to the wooden floor underneath the chair’s touchdown.
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones and Marrow, both published by Thirty West Publishing House, The Guessing Game published by BA Press, and Thirst and Frost forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.
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