Alphabetical stories

Leaving Home

13671367 views66 comments11 fav

She refused to leave her parents to marry him.

Leaving Home

969969 views11 comment00 favs

it is heavier than it looks with edges smoothed by the passage of time

LECTURES

11901190 views66 comments55 favs

LECTURES A Bra Burning When Freud painted “Envy,” the women collapsed, holding fans to their faces. Hot that year, they retired to the Tyrols. 50 Days of Palindromes Although Thiebaud painted cakes like women,…

Leda and the Swan: Paul Gauguin

11971197 views11 comment00 favs

Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye where the shadow runs. The swan

Leda, After the Swan

939939 views11 comment00 favs

I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello

Left at the Tracks

973973 views77 comments00 favs

Shivering in the car, he watched his parents arguing under the porch light. He saw the smoking anger of their breath as they jabbed the cold air with accusatory fingers.

Left Chest Pocket

10391039 views11 comment00 favs

no entrance fee

Left for Dead

755755 views00 comments00 favs

Bobby slowly raised his head above the emerald green stalks of rice and looked up and down the paddy for any sign of the men who had been crossing it with him, when the shell exploded. Movement out of the corner of his eye sent him face down in the muck a

left handed

11081108 views55 comments33 favs

under your skin the moon is alive

Left of the Miracle

603603 views55 comments22 favs

Wake me up on payday Don’t throw in the towel

Left On The Scrap Heap

336336 views44 comments33 favs

Daylight and cold sensed as an abstract, a number in my mind. Air thin, polluted, lacking oxygen. But the Recyclers are at it again.

Left to Leaves

770770 views22 comments33 favs

Golden yellows and oranges and reds that could have been scratching their toes now just tear the skin around her Achilles' heel.

Left to our own Dvices

319319 views44 comments22 favs

No one knew why DVices were so hard to find. No one knows for sure anyway.

Leftover Author's Notes

267267 views1616 comments77 favs

#281: If you make it to the end on this one, I'll send you $1,000 in cash and a bag of apples. Your choices are Granny Smith and Fuji. I can also pay you in euros if that helps.

Leftovers

10271027 views99 comments1010 favs

That evening she sat on sofa and sniffled and twisted her handkerchief with her fingers. I decided it wasn't the right time to show her the picture....

Leg and Leg and Another Leg

10671067 views66 comments55 favs

The robot may be grabbing onto something so big I'm mistaking it for the countryside, or the sunset. I could just be one cog in an infinite chain of leg-attachment, stretching from the cosmos to the sub-atomic.

Legend

18411841 views00 comments00 favs

My half-brother Salvy laughs each time we meet here at the hospital to visit our father Phil, who has lung cancer. He laughs because Phil married my mother, not his. He laughs at my job in Valhalla, the final resting place for those who lose at the…

Legend from the Shi-chi, the History by Ssu-ma Chi'en

140140 views33 comments11 fav

Disenchanted by Chou state's decline, Lao Tzu, its archive's chief historian, Born in Li village, teacher of Confucius (The wise man journeyed far to study with him, Was told: 'Surrender all your arrogance, Ingratiating ways, your wild ambition.') …

Legs

10011001 views22 comments11 fav

Rachel Stevens is an attractive woman I notice her long fair skinned legs and think that She must wear sun block to live in Arizona And have skirts like that. Today she invites me inside, She says she has a light bulb for me to change — up high. In a friendly…

Legs Unwilling

10861086 views11 comment11 fav

Summer bakes the metal playground slide to ripples. Still, kids line up. Sadists, all of them. Lucky enough to choose pain. Max feels it every breath, unwanted.

Lemon Citron

576576 views66 comments66 favs

Here it comes at long last. We just can't do it like that again. We don't have the same time. But something's wanting something more to be more than this. Here it comes again. But you bailed on me the last time around. Went silent as a…

Lemony snickers on Route 66

13261326 views2020 comments1010 favs

Went back to his cab and returned with a whip...

Lend a Hand

699699 views33 comments00 favs

Now how do you feel about that, My future graverobber friend?

Lending Books

12931293 views1414 comments99 favs

In the late 60’s, I lived on West 71st street in Manhattan and borrowed books from a store.

Lenin's Paintings

12831283 views22 comments00 favs

I was going through Lenin's jewelry and his paintings with a team of experts. I got the idea that I was hired to verify his paintings, although I didn't know he painted.

Leningrad's Sister City And Her Cuban Sandwiches

861861 views22 comments11 fav

It began not so innocently with voyeuristic tendencies. the sound of concrete and confetti in the night.

Lens

14251425 views2929 comments1212 favs

Night fell and the photographer slept, one hand between Prue's legs.

lent (valentine's day challenge )

12671267 views66 comments55 favs

the names / she carried (within)

Lentil Soup

812812 views00 comments00 favs

"You're my husband, for chrissake!"

Leox

14321432 views66 comments22 favs

Whoever came up with the term kismet is an absolute moron. There isn't a single reason, or word, that can describe what exactly my brain has concocted in the face of him. No, kismet isn't what makes it happen. It's my own stupidity..