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Talker

by Steven Gowin, posted 34 minutes ago 1111 views00 comments00 favs

I’m out there all day, all hours waitin’ to go back in the women's shelters anyway. Street... that's where we do do the talkin' and the rantin' and the pantin'.

The Conversation That Changed The Course Of Human Civilization

by Chris Okum, posted 3 hours ago 2828 views22 comments11 fav

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Budding Writer Lessens Pain of Summer Reading With Board Game

by Con Chapman, posted 7 hours ago 2020 views22 comments00 favs

“We created a board game called Jr. Writers Fun Land!” says his mother. “It’s a good indoor activity for rainy days when real writers write depressing poetry.”

Rescue Fantasies

by Gloria Garfunkel, posted 7 hours ago 5353 views1212 comments66 favs

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morning after

by James Claffey, posted 8 hours ago 6666 views44 comments33 favs

The doctor sucks the fetus out of her with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, and it’s the same one my ma uses to hoover the floors.

Missing the Forgotten

by Paul Mahlum, posted 8 hours ago 4242 views55 comments22 favs

Twenty-six years after leaving, I wanted to forget.

Latex

by Laura Esckelson, posted 10 hours ago 5454 views99 comments55 favs

Sometimes the scenes were benign: a chair draped with a blanket, the smell of black tea. The other ones infected her late into the day: one from a girl with henna hair who wordlessly handed in a form. Patrice saw a noose dangling over a wooden chair and f

Eating Dim Sum with Di

by Steven Blum, posted 10 hours ago 4141 views22 comments22 favs

Lindsey and I are both talking loudly about things we would never talk about in real life, under the impression that this is all somehow instructional for Di. But I think it's really more about us. Di gives us an excuse to talk like two people unjustifiab

Throwing Pencils

by Lauren Napier, posted 14 hours ago 7272 views66 comments55 favs

I can never tell if he’s drunk or using some sort of substance or if perhaps his brain just doesn’t fire at the pace that we have come to accept as normal.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 42

by Daniel Harris, posted 20 hours ago 3333 views00 comments00 favs

We had sex, but hadn’t established a strong relationship. We liked each other as more than friends, but I was worried that Claudia was acting as a honey trap and spying on me for Dan Arris.

Visions On The Beach

by Patti Hall, posted 28 hours ago 7070 views1212 comments55 favs

I walked along the beach today, and there I saw them all; including the latest lost: little Tiven, Tommy, Michaela & my Paul. Grandma painted at her easel, set upon the dune. Uncle Eddie bent in half, laughing like a loon, Oliver growled…

Joe and the Spiderman

by Brian Michael Barbeito, posted 30 hours ago 6464 views44 comments33 favs

Once upon a time I sat in summer chairs beside cool vine walls. This was in a borough east of the major city, where families gathered in seasonal joy, by blooms fragrant, to worship the summer and its might. There is nothing diminutive about the world when one is…

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

by Jim Harrington, posted 33 hours ago 3838 views44 comments11 fav

Eva stepped out of the hut she and Javier shared and slogged through the mud toward the coop to fetch fresh eggs for Javier's breakfast. None existed. Javier became angry when he didn't get his eggs. Eva slowed her pace as she neared the door. She knew wh

Bring Me His Head

by Gita M. Smith, posted 35 hours ago 102102 views1616 comments1313 favs

Just bring me his head, that cerebral kiln of hot, ruddy verbiage and cadence.

Inevitable

by Loyola Landry, posted 43 hours ago 6161 views44 comments22 favs

T-Rex's arms are very short, so he uses his mouth to catch and throw the frisbee. The disc, an allopleuron shell, comes flying toward him and his powerful jaw muscles tense in anticipation. When he catches the turtle shell he wants to crush it between his teeth and knows…

Mnemonics

by Gary Hardaway, posted 44 hours ago 9494 views1212 comments1010 favs

I write to make visible my small/ assertions against impermanence.

Marry Rich & Live Forever

by P.R. Mercado, posted 45 hours ago 3838 views22 comments11 fav

Hey Handsome Rich Kid / Do you want to go boink boink in your Benz?



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