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Pictures of the Moon

by Darryl Price, posted 2 days ago 5555 views11 comment11 fav

I really don't want to say it. I don't really want to feel it. How many times does it have to besaid? Some part of you knows no one ever gets more than a small temporary visa to these particular dreaming…

Mrs. Penfield

by Carl Santoro, posted 4 days ago 175175 views11 comment11 fav

Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted Oct 10, 2025 7171 views00 comments00 favs

Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

Punchlines of a cosmic joke

by strannikov, posted Sep 26, 2025 661661 views00 comments00 favs

Creating a world in which no one believes . . . killing a world in which no one could believe.

The Big LARP

by stephen hastings-king, posted Sep 18, 2025 834834 views22 comments11 fav

The ambient sound wheezes on.

use

by Valerie Henderson, posted Aug 26, 2025 22012201 views66 comments44 favs

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The Circle of Life

by Aline Carriere, posted Aug 26, 2025 22462246 views11 comment22 favs

Maybe you could buy a Volunteer,” Carol suggested. Ma huffed. “You know we don't have the money for that. And besides I never liked the idea of Volunteers — taking advantage of the poor like that.”

Circularity (story fragment)

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Aug 22, 2025 21982198 views00 comments00 favs

Ian Markham stood before the massive triangular window of Circularity's pyramidal office building. Its Technicolor hologram, a coup in advertising sloganeering, urgently flashed the company's ubiquitous tagline—IT'S NOT JUST AN ADVENTURE. IT'S A SECOND CHANCE! …

Blind-Sided, PT 1.

by Michael D. Brown, posted Aug 03, 2025 28362836 views00 comments00 favs

BLIND-SIDED 1 The humid night air clung to Julio's skin as he and Marco stepped off the bus near campus, laughter trailing behind them like the smell of esquites from the street vendor across the road. The political rally had been noisy and full of energy - and…

to You

by Jeffery Klaehn, posted Aug 03, 2025 27682768 views33 comments22 favs

A glance—I dissolved completely.

O Fortuna

by Michael Parker, posted Jul 30, 2025 28122812 views1111 comments66 favs

This poem begins my poetry collection. It is about the pain and suffering I experienced when I had an attack of two pulmonary embolisms, one in the right lung, one in the left. This nearly killed me. I lived with the pain in my lungs whenever I took a bre

Brian Epstein's Letter to His Mother

by Amanda Harris, posted Jul 23, 2025 29232923 views1010 comments55 favs

All that loves green produces green.

At the Crossroads Bar

by Joani Reese, posted Jul 22, 2025 30173017 views55 comments44 favs

An eye patch waits aslant his passenger seat.

Because

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Jul 06, 2025 28492849 views77 comments66 favs

Because I'm old and this is the Way I Do Things now...

June 29

by Tim G. Young, posted Jul 03, 2025 28222822 views88 comments44 favs

the only thing that impresses me now is the state of my inebriation

The Wind

by Steven Gowin, posted Jun 29, 2025 28142814 views55 comments55 favs

The wind comes up relentless in the afternoon

Me and Sid and Tom and John Yount

by David Ackley, posted Jun 10, 2025 29742974 views22 comments11 fav

True story



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