There is a man for whom I am in-lovewith such passion and devastation. And in this love is an unrequited lovethat will only ever complete a friend’s demonstration. His smile does not pain mebut rekindles that ever sought platonic joy. His embrace does not degrade mebut rejuvenates an unrequited love I must employ. Fear is …
Author: Adrian X. Tristan
Lunch at the “Crepes on Cole”
Solo meal. Chicken and rice soup, warm and to fill a cup. Table by the windows. Out the window eyes. Ham and Cheese sandwich, cut into halves. Toasted wheat bread, red tomato, green lettuce, white mayo, yellow mustard. Plain leafy salad, clear vinaigrette. Roasted red potatoes. Eavesdropping ears. Silverware clinking on dishware. Coffee cups jostle, …
Mori’s Kitchen Website: Soft Launch
Client Name: Mori's Kitchen LLC Client Website: https://www.kitchenmori.com Client Background: This client is in the early developmental stage of opening a new conceptual fast-casual Peruvian restaurant in Reno, Nevada. Client Needs: After an initial consultation, the client agreed to hire me to project manage a soft launch website for this business. This would entail me …
A Creative Writer’s Wish of Hell
I want Hell to be Ironic. I want to suddenly appear in a large white room. Freezing cold. With a large calligraphy sign on one side of the room to read: “Please Take a Coat to Warm Yourself, My Friend”. And I pick an amazing plush fur coat from a seemingly never-ending wall of coats. …
San Francisco Bay
Location: On the open waters of the San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge Date: May 2018 Setting: We started in Tiburon, in the North Bay, to board the brides multi hull catamaran that she was the captain of. The groom being a captain in his own right as well, which is how they …
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Date: April 2017 Setting: The following wedding took place on the pristine white sandy beaches of an all-inclusive resort on the far eastern coastline of the Dominican Republic. A simple 8 foot white cloth canopy was posted into the sandy beach, only a few yards from the sapphire blue waves …
San Antonio, Texas
Location: San Antonio, Texas Date: February 2016 Setting: The following wedding took place just south of the city on a small plot of land converted into a wedding venue, complete with large modern barn for a reception hall. The ceremony took place outside, with me at a podium, and the closed barn doors as the …
Aubrey, Texas
Location: Aubrey, Texas Date: November 2015 Setting: The following wedding took place North of Dallas, TX in a newly built, fairly large venue, with large dressing rooms, a kitchen, stage, dance floor, and an outside gazebo on a small man-made hill just to the side of the main venue building. Unfortunately, it rained that day …
The Pyro Gene
At the age of eight, my father intentionally burned down our family home. He used friction. He found a friend of my mother’s cousin and conducted friction. Eventually, the friction made sparks and landed on some highly flammable material. Namely, my mother. The house and kids went up in flames next. My sisters crawled away …
Flash Grief
It arrives as a surprise the grief like ice on the back for something that never was Me: Question (Awkward Page) Him: An Affirmative (Awkward Page) Me: Projection (With Hope)Him: Emotional Response (Evasive Maneuvers) TimeInstinct. Doubt. Fear. Preservation. Marches Me: Question (Clarifying) Him: The Negative (Clarified) Me: Question (Fragile Hope)Him: The Negative (Emphatic) Me: Question …
Letters from the Latrine 