My beard is really a group of tiny strange men trapped on the inside of my chin. The Beard-Men see light through my open and non-oily pores which entices them in their futile attempts at escape. They stand on each other's shoulders and thrust their tiny heads of coarse hair upward, threading strands through the pores in my chin, mostly at night.
Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order. I know this because my barber informed me. He has established a small coalition of interested parties in freeing the Beard-Men. He refuses to be complicit in Beard-Men imprisonment.
When I asked him how they got into my chin, he said he'd have to get back to me.
Michael J. Solender writes a weekly Neighborhoods column for The Charlotte Observer and is a contributor to Charlotte ViewPoint. His micro-fiction and poetry have been featured online at Calliope Nerve, Danse Macabre, Dogzplot, The Legendary, Full of Crow, Outsider Writers Collective, Shoots & Vines, Six Sentences and over one dozen other venues. His short fiction piece, Inseparable Bond, will be featured in the upcoming print anthology, Harbinger*33. He is the Associate Editor for On The Wing, the non-fiction arm of Full of Crow, an online magazine. He blogs here: http://notfromhereareyou.blogspot.com/
Sometimes they bleat like sheep when I shave in the shower. They live in a complex social order. I know this because my barber informed me. He has established a small coalition of interested parties in freeing the Beard-Men. He refuses to be complicit in Beard-Men imprisonment.
When I asked him how they got into my chin, he said he'd have to get back to me.
Michael J. Solender writes a weekly Neighborhoods column for The Charlotte Observer and is a contributor to Charlotte ViewPoint. His micro-fiction and poetry have been featured online at Calliope Nerve, Danse Macabre, Dogzplot, The Legendary, Full of Crow, Outsider Writers Collective, Shoots & Vines, Six Sentences and over one dozen other venues. His short fiction piece, Inseparable Bond, will be featured in the upcoming print anthology, Harbinger*33. He is the Associate Editor for On The Wing, the non-fiction arm of Full of Crow, an online magazine. He blogs here: http://notfromhereareyou.blogspot.com/
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