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The Course Of Empire

by Chris Okum, posted 9 hours ago 4343 views33 comments33 favs

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ED

by Tim G. Young, posted 5 days ago 9393 views22 comments11 fav

I'd rather go drinking than play the guitar

Pleaser

by Emily Sparkles, posted Mar 05, 2024 133133 views44 comments22 favs

Yes keeps falling out of my mouth

Space

by Darryl Price, posted Mar 05, 2024 121121 views11 comment11 fav

Sometimes I hate having to go through the multiverse just to talk to you. Finding the right moment folded in unlimited space to hold your hand. It's enough to drive anyone here crazy with frustration. But I do want to do it. It's like waiting…

Visitation

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Mar 04, 2024 135135 views33 comments33 favs

Nothing but the motion

OBLIGATORIES

by Jeffrey S. Callico, posted Feb 27, 2024 129129 views55 comments22 favs

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You Pour Vodka In Your Coffee

by W. Scott Bowlin, posted Feb 25, 2024 221221 views66 comments44 favs

I wonder if she is my real mother, if I could get one of those paternity tests and find out if she’s my real mother and if the guy she told me was my father was really my father. I can’t remember him very well, just a lot of him screaming and hollering an

Wake

by Gary Moshimer, posted Feb 23, 2024 181181 views44 comments33 favs

At my daughter's wake Mr. Aleford, her teacher, poked out his pointy nose, sniffing my cologne. How could I be plastered with this, at a time like this? Well, dear Sir, Two reasons. One, to hide the booze. And two, because my wife and I had made feverish love that…

No More Little Bridget

by James Claffey, posted Feb 11, 2024 227227 views77 comments77 favs

I spend my time sitting on the back step—poison oak reddening my arm—under the eaves, waiting to escape.

American MEOW

by Misti Rainwater-Lites, posted Feb 08, 2024 180180 views77 comments44 favs

No American ghosts are friendly. I hate to be the one to break the news to you, amigo. American ghosts speak in blood and smoke signals and guttural cries. American ghosts MEOW.

Flesh Alive

by strannikov, posted Feb 05, 2024 171171 views22 comments11 fav

Their breathing could not now be heard: / they'd washt and talkt before they got to bed, / they only waited now to hear.

Tonight's Special

by John Olson, posted Feb 04, 2024 178178 views44 comments44 favs

I didn't arrive at the Wicked Spoon every night in the same mood. Some nights I would arrive under the spell of a generous emptiness, what I like to call the euphoria of futility. Not exactly a state of bliss, but a dazed detachment in which everything is so pointlessly…

Chewie and R2D2

by Smiley McGrouchpants, Jr-Esq-III, posted Feb 03, 2024 215215 views22 comments11 fav

The door was locked. Han Solo couldn't believe it. After they'd come all this way! …

JUST VISITING

by Carl Santoro, posted Feb 02, 2024 303303 views33 comments33 favs

"I LEFT IT ALL ONE DAY"

The Pitch

by stephen hastings-king, posted Feb 02, 2024 185185 views66 comments44 favs

This is what I am saying now.

fork

by Valerie Henderson, posted Jan 31, 2024 200200 views1414 comments77 favs

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Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted Jan 27, 2024 176176 views22 comments22 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!



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