Miles Cressman

Miles is one of the youngest contributors to the Resistance Front anthology. Miles' short story submission "Deconstruct," is quite unexpected and clever. He's also the author of The Dream Metropolis.

Miles first novel, The Dream Metropolis
is available on Amazon
in print and Kindle format.

Dislocation

Dark chocolate black evening
Butterscotch streetlights
And the angelic grace of a passing by car
Some sorrowful electronic song blaring through his earbuds
The world is silent.

He walks to the beat of his own feet
the tapping upon the concrete his lone song.
Familiar faces and familiar places beckon and call
And he waves at them like each one's nothin' more
than a passing memory.

But he feels discontent
There's a kink in the machine
Throwin' off his tilt, going against his grain
He doesn't know what it is but it's tearing him asunder
Piece by piece like a short story
that doesn't quite work.

The color of his battle is unknown
a melange of paints and dyes and bleaches
And when you throw them together against a wall
it comes out intangible
and so he continues down the path, the faces now a blur.

Rejections and revelations
All smattering together at once
Overloading, oversensualizing
He can't deal with it all at once so he hides
Waiting... always waiting.

Into a mirror he looks
At the sagged eyes and the unshaven nascent beard
Specifically at the vessels of sight he sees
In them no beginnings
Only the promises of endings.

Miles is a 22 year old recent graduate of the University of Oregon with a Bachelor's in English. He is currently going back for his postbac degree in Education, but in his spare time he writes novels. Currently, he is at work on a four-part science fiction series called A Paean to Dreams.

Visit Miles's website:  http://paeantodreams.wordpress.com/

Miles Cressman

If you follow enough of the KAS members on twitter, you already know we're an odd group. We occasionally go into some zany banter and Miles ends up in the middle of all of it. I envision him as a neighbor who always seems to walk into a Three Stooges or Marx Brothers skit just as pies begin to fly through the air.

His Resistance Front contribution is called "Deconstruct" and it's a fun read, particularly if you're a grammar nut.

Miles' first novel, The Dream Metropolis,
is currently available on Amazon

Niche in the Canyon

Twisted, wavy seascapes
Painted, sculpted out of rock
I'm at the ocean
even though it's so far away.

In tranquility I find
One single parcel of light
Found its way through this fortress of solitude
Made shelter.

Flakes of rock fall off and –
The sand basin fills, like a perpetual hourglass
But the light never changes.
It still occupies the same space, it never moves.
As if the world spun around it

I made a home and yet I'm
“Is this where you've been hiding?”
180 spin and radiant eyes
Inquisitive and penetrating

“They can't find me here.”

Who? The voice asks:
The eyes are gone and the body vanished
So there's no point for quotation marks.

“People.”

But you are a person.

“I'm the light in this cave. And I'm the sand. And I'm the ocean on these rocks.”

Do you breathe?

“Only here.”

Only here.

Miles is a 22 year old recent graduate of the University of Oregon with a Bachelor's in English. He is currently going back for his postbac degree in Education, but in his spare time he writes novels. Currently he is at work on a four-part science fiction series called A Paean to Dreams.

Visit Miles website:  http://paeantodreams.wordpress.com/