Most discussed stories

Three Facts

11491149 views1010 comments11 fav

These are the three facts of my life.

Rams, NFL's Smartest Team, Forget to Make Playoffs

15641564 views1010 comments33 favs

“I was looking for the review of the Alvin Ailey dance company when I noticed something in the sports pages,” says the 300-pound center. “All of a sudden it hit me–I should have been playing football."

Zeus Takes a Day Job

12341234 views1010 comments88 favs

That's demeaning enough, but not as hard to take as the customers. They're all jaded hipsters, thumb diddling smartphone freaks, pretending their online interactions actually count as relationships and that “tweets” are real conversations. It's sad, reall

Off the Wall

927927 views1010 comments33 favs

[...] in the living room above the fire, someone had gouged a letter A on the wall.

Blue Line Southbound

13241324 views1010 comments55 favs

Brazilian girls yammer with their book bags up against my leg.

Lang's Dragon

22042204 views1010 comments88 favs

Fritz Lang. Even before I ever met the miserable son of a bitch, with his monocle and superior airs, I hated him. In person, he was an insufferable asshole.

Geek Love

752752 views1010 comments44 favs

We’ve clicked/ and tapped ‘til dawn/ and our exhaustion meet,

The Monolingual’s Regret

11831183 views1010 comments99 favs

Polylinguists lash me with tongues I cannot conjugate

Birthday Music

12401240 views1010 comments00 favs

It’s been stored away in the cedar chest since my mother put it there in the early 60’s, well, 1962 to be exact. She was a careful woman, but over these many years the bow has flattened, and the wind-up parts have corroded some from non-use. Oh, the

Love, your daughter

656656 views1010 comments77 favs

You gave me all of the power, and none of the power.

Armitage Shanks Checks Into The Hyatt

16341634 views1010 comments33 favs

I scowl at her through an opioid haze. "Armitage Shanks is my real name." The clerk snickers. "You mum must have really wanted you to be pissed on from cradle to grave, eh?"

Man

906906 views1010 comments44 favs

There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.

The visitors

645645 views1010 comments55 favs

I am a small cottage up on the hill. Every morning, I open my windows and my front door. First enters dawn which turns the walls blue, followed by the sun laying straws of wheat on my table. Inside my cottage the day lights up the dark corners while the lamps go quietly…

They're All Bleepin' Poets, Jack

13401340 views1010 comments33 favs

Occasionally I will pick up a quarterly— As a budding poet, to do what I oughterly, And peruse the pages for helpful examples That I can crib or use as samples.

driving

10501050 views1010 comments66 favs

gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour and just getting under way

Heart Shaped Charms

599599 views1010 comments1010 favs

He steered to the roadside and answered her question before she could ask.

Right and Wrong

14241424 views1010 comments77 favs

Uncle Tee, a dog handler, taught all the camp children their basics: how to "make change" from a $10-bill, how to slip a hand into ladies' purses, and how to make their smiles warm and endearing.

Spitwads

11431143 views1010 comments55 favs

Two types coexist- the sanguine/ and exsanguinated./ My skin is cool/ and pale as moonlight

Light

139139 views1010 comments1111 favs

Children imagine dying all the time, especially when someone in their life, someone close, has died. Children's games often include pretend dying, flopping around after being shot for about three minutes, choking, falling to the ground and…

The Beautiful Mercedes

10551055 views1010 comments66 favs

The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.

Augustine

10851085 views1010 comments77 favs

You stretch my heart / in sacred ways

She Rose From the Weeds

11811181 views1010 comments88 favs

you drove by the woman standing on the verge the woman with the shoulders of a long distance swimmer and you told yourself her story: she'd slept in the wiregrass she carries…

Flush

13691369 views1010 comments33 favs

“No one likes an indecisive sexual partner.”

A Familiar Song of Love Song

12751275 views1010 comments99 favs

Take a bird down from the sky, just for a moment, it endears you to me. Find a raindrop in the pouring rain, it is a jewel beyond compare, unless you Are directly in possession of it. Drop it. There is a star that I cannot help seeing In the…

Marriage

13051305 views1010 comments55 favs

Freshly fucked, Shirley exhaled enjoying the lingering sensations. She always felt lighter after a good orgasm, and this had been one for the record books.

Click

10911091 views1010 comments33 favs

I am going to quit clicking refresh, only because it is clear nothing is happening out there. After I click refresh just one more time, that is, and then I am closing the window. After clicking one more last time. …

Pitcher

13861386 views1010 comments44 favs

3D is killing my porn career.

White Noise

13331333 views1010 comments66 favs

In the small hours, when the crackling of the embers had stopped and the room had gone cold, the boiler kicked in and the pipes began to clang. He was half-roused out of his sleep, and then slipped under again to dream of Marley's fettered ghost.

The Red Slit

13421342 views1010 comments33 favs

Kitchen. sandwich. wife. daughter.

Fable

14361436 views1010 comments77 favs

The Muse stands at the summit of a paragraph playing with a yo-yo.