late night fiction https://latenightfiction.com/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:41:15 +0000 these nights I can't sleep before 3 https://latenightfiction.com/these-nights-i-cant-sleep-before-3?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[these nights I can't sleep before 3 even when I have no reason to stay up no job to avoid tomorrow morning I stay up and stare at my phone worry about things far away won't even be close soon tell myself I should read a book I should have a night routine I should be asleep at an arbitrary hour but I don't do any of that so now it's 3 A.M. and all I can hope is for deep vivid dreams when sleep finally comes]]> these nights I can't sleep before 3

even when I have no reason to stay up no job to avoid tomorrow morning

I stay up and stare at my phone worry about things far away

won't even be close soon

tell myself I should read a book I should have a night routine I should be asleep at an arbitrary hour but I don't

do any of that

so now it's 3 A.M.

and all I can hope is for deep vivid dreams when sleep finally comes

]]> https://latenightfiction.com/these-nights-i-cant-sleep-before-3 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:49:33 +0000 I wish to live in boring times https://latenightfiction.com/i-wish-to-live-in-boring-times?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I wish to live in boring times no need to turn on the news; no crumbling society since last I checked I might sip something warm under my backyard trees listen to the leaves feel the cool breeze I would think about beauty instead of misinformation campaigns; how to convince my parents they shouldn't believe everything they see I might reclaim some time to do nothing at all ]]> I wish to live in boring times no need to turn on the news; no crumbling society since last I checked

I might sip something warm under my backyard trees listen to the leaves feel the cool breeze

I would think about beauty instead of misinformation campaigns; how to convince my parents they shouldn't believe everything they see

I might reclaim some time to do nothing at all

]]> https://latenightfiction.com/i-wish-to-live-in-boring-times Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:45:14 +0000 Sometimes https://latenightfiction.com/sometimes?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Sometimes usually when I have too much coffee I feel like I'm stumbling faster than I can catch myself the ground has tilted forward I have to p u s h a g a i n s t it no longer step when I want the hill pulls me down until I remember I can change the hill]]> Sometimes usually when I have too much coffee I feel like I'm stumbling faster than I can catch myself the ground has tilted forward I have to p u s h a g a i n s t it no longer step when I want the hill pulls me down until I remember I can change the hill

]]> https://latenightfiction.com/sometimes Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:58:52 +0000 Pages, flat, wide https://latenightfiction.com/pages-flat-wide?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Pages, flat, wide mossy teeth just the inside a gut storing leftover unnecessaries quickies of joy--now lard simple devices: a pen creation: create or conserve your energy? make some great shit that I can read in 5 years never know or care for its greatness now just give me a reason to live THEN, when I need it. creativity [excitement] constrained to a glowing screen world: send your leaves falling your cold into my bones your waves into my ears show me something again I can love. poetry]]> Pages, flat, wide mossy teeth just the inside a gut storing leftover unnecessaries quickies of joy—now lard simple devices: a pen creation: create or conserve your energy? make some great shit that I can read in 5 years never know or care for its greatness now just give me a reason to live THEN, when I need it. creativity [excitement] constrained to a glowing screen world: send your leaves falling your cold into my bones your waves into my ears show me something again I can love.

#poetry

]]> https://latenightfiction.com/pages-flat-wide Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:43:18 +0000 2 more weeks https://latenightfiction.com/2-more-weeks?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[2 more weeks an open field of free choice, a goal in mind. a dog, a cat, and some things. stay in the city? stay in the woods? whichever is more pretty. Dr. Society misdiagnoses, prescribes me the wrong medicine. so in two weeks I'm off it. medicating with dreams, sights, and a leap.]]> 2 more weeks

an open field of free choice, a goal in mind. a dog, a cat, and some things.

stay in the city? stay in the woods? whichever is more pretty.

Dr. Society misdiagnoses, prescribes me the wrong medicine.

so in two weeks I'm off it. medicating with dreams, sights, and a leap.

]]> https://latenightfiction.com/2-more-weeks Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:08:52 +0000 PLANS FOR THE FUTURE https://latenightfiction.com/plans-for-the-future?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[PLANS FOR THE FUTURE Eyes will still see and hearts will still beat With a title for the ensuing musings a purpose is suddenly clear watch a movie to distract from scatterbrained reality without an over-arching plot--motive sometimes only little chunks of life can remind that this can be as great as all the things you're afraid to be better than and a little motive theme single universal truth trumps in understanding trying to keep track of all the little half-truths that litter your brain -M]]> PLANS FOR THE FUTURE Eyes will still see and hearts will still beat With a title for the ensuing musings a purpose is suddenly clear watch a movie to distract from scatterbrained reality without an over-arching plot—motive sometimes only little chunks of life can remind that this can be as great as all the things you're afraid to be better than and a little motive theme single universal truth trumps in understanding trying to keep track of all the little half-truths that litter your brain

-M

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