Most discussed stories

The Edge of Night

15491549 views33 comments33 favs

The night wrapped its arms around us as we drove west, taking the highway past Medford towards Philly. The kids were asleep in the backseat and we were both counting the mile markers, staring out the windows with quiet eyes. I listened to the drone of the…

B.U.N.N.I.

12441244 views33 comments22 favs

Then I see her walking down the grass aisle: my assignment. She looks nothing like the image I have been trained with, but her identifier is strong.

My Glass is Waiting

13571357 views33 comments11 fav

The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.

Feline Impediments to a Sunday Nap

665665 views33 comments00 favs

The two cats begin to circle To better make my surface workle. They treat me as (this makes me sore) Floor model in a mattress store.

flash

12211221 views33 comments11 fav

okay fine, on the count of three

Edith Head's Heady Day

10721072 views33 comments22 favs

Rain dressed for winter, a win, she thought

Annals of the Naked Rowdies #22

16271627 views33 comments00 favs

As they left, Roddy kicked over a statue of a blindfold and half-naked goddess of justice. "I piss on you Justice!" he yelled. The bailiff pushed him out the door as he continued his rant, inaudible.

Intro To the Great American Novel

16881688 views33 comments33 favs

First, the title: How George Bush And the Lovely Danielle Saved Planet Earth From Zork the Galactic Destroyer. A little unwieldy perhaps but still, a grabber. Already you're thinking, George Bush? Saving Earth? Did he die by his own fucking hand?…

Rumination

741741 views33 comments11 fav

I am cultivating a willingness to devour anything. I will eat a chemistry lab. I will eat a perturbation if I can figure out how to cook a perturbation.

Waiting for Hurricane Dennis, Florida 2005

12521252 views33 comments33 favs

WAITING FOR HURRICANE DENNIS, FLORIDA 2005 With soft eyes, she quizzed, shivered, said: “Where's Dad? Where's Ric? Will you leave me here alone? Are you all going to leave? Where's Peter? Do you feel all right? We're…

Absinthe

13831383 views33 comments33 favs

In a dazzle of emerald softness, it flew out into the breeze wanting for the red apple in the tree just outside my window. The power had gone out, spare change to total meltdown, and the air inside was stifling, thick with mind-numbing languor and mosquitoes. So I…

Shakedown Street

13721372 views33 comments22 favs

The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l

Breach of Faith

34213421 views33 comments11 fav

You love your wife and would never do anything to hurt her. In thirteen years of marriage you’ve never been unfaithful, never done more than glance at another woman. Until tonight. Tonight you got lucky. Oh God, how you got lucky!

The Astounding Adventures of Cyril Bright

35973597 views33 comments11 fav

Chap. XI: A Place Beauteous of Which I Dare Not Speak And when I had released the spirit from his worldly prison, he did show to me a way that man does not travel, though travel it I did with him until we should chance to see such things as should never be polaroided (and…

My Heart goes Boom

11781178 views33 comments00 favs

On his knees in front of the transplant board, he pleaded for his ailing heart, spluttering on its last dying beats, to be replaced with a bomb.

Functionary

734734 views33 comments11 fav

The work of translation is a braid of light.

Terry, the virgin

12921292 views33 comments22 favs

Terry had an apartment not far from Lake Michigan, where we could stroll to one of the beaches. It was close to Lincoln Park. This was in the summer of 1966. We had to walk up to the fourth floor, and on those steamy hot Chicago summer nights in August,

Golden State

19761976 views33 comments22 favs

The first door on the right is the bedroom. Even if I try to forget; my body remembers and the strength of its yearning fairly pulls me inside. I noticed you left the door ajar. Really you should be more careful.

Return to Porthfeddon

12811281 views33 comments22 favs

Once upon a time he'd thought her as cold a fish as her aristocratic husband

Wonder as the Sum of All My Ignorance

967967 views33 comments22 favs

Questions unanswered proliferate/ across the April sky, blue// with wisps of cirrus white.

Patchwork Number Zero

232232 views33 comments11 fav

ITime to flee, when the rain falls new,through whispers coming throughinterstellar solace,the physical impossibility of deathin the mind of someone living. Someone once saidyou can look up everything on TV,that to approach with cautionresults in…

55 Words #1

25592559 views33 comments33 favs

I would roll my eyes, give one word replies or a smiley face.

Mountains

14731473 views33 comments33 favs

having a bad day

851851 views33 comments11 fav

My mom said, “Carol, why are you laughing?” And I said, “I just saw my last boyfriend and his wife, who got married six months after we broke up, and it’s funny. I mean, I just saw them. They’re in town visiting from California.” And my mom said, “C

Outside Thunder Pallets

14601460 views33 comments44 favs

Carl’s peculiarity of toilet paper rolls is not covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act – he’s looked it up.

Waking Up After a Nap During Election Day

14051405 views33 comments22 favs

He is an exercise in humility:What I cannot have or be. The chances of our meetingand his perfection are darkly astronomical. There are plenty of otherswhose riches I cannot have,why envy him?We are similar in spritbut have different fortunes.It is unfair and…

The Light of Paper Lamps

290290 views33 comments22 favs

Machinery bleeds until a soundlessness confounds,then, like a candle's light through a paper lanternyour womanness passes, leads me,not thru blind eye desires, nor the glow of demon firesbut something powerfully inert. A potent inexaction.I will not cling to your…

Fifth of July

34713471 views33 comments22 favs

On the day my grandmother was buried, my grandfather shucked corn.

The Flight

20272027 views33 comments22 favs

Of course, you're eventually struck by the thought that the house you saw on the hill was not your house and that those children and the dog are purely matter for the strange.

Have You Seen The Globe Today?

10731073 views33 comments22 favs

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/07/17/imagine_mimes_as_the_mbta_noise_police/