Most discussed stories

Visiting Sally

15121512 views1818 comments1717 favs

Buddy was in a garage band. They were pretty good. “Soul Harbor“ they called themselves.

Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1

14251425 views1818 comments1313 favs

One must be drenched in words.

Summer recipes

19371937 views1818 comments1313 favs

Instead of julienning the fava beans you could, instead, slip your linen shirt off your pink shoulders and hang it on a tree branch like a white flag yelling “I don’t want to fight anymore, goddamit, this aftenoon is beautiful.”

A Small Life in Slices

13851385 views1818 comments1010 favs

It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/ but shave, I do. A little act// of discipline in the discipline/ of routine.

White Woman

14741474 views1818 comments55 favs

She had a compulsion to organize things according to their size or colour or according to some other abstruse algorithm that clicked through her mind. She didn't know that this was OCD

leave the dog, take the cannoli

11081108 views1818 comments88 favs

he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

Beautiful Girls

20812081 views1818 comments1818 favs

and all the beautiful girls are in the river And they went in dirty But they came out clean

Frostproof Suite: Clown Car

755755 views1818 comments1616 favs

My job was take the falls, act the dope, finish at the wrong end of the slap stick for the blow off. I was Auguste, the fool; I drove the clown car.

But It's Been a While

12461246 views1818 comments1515 favs

When I first met Luther he was sitting on the sidewalk, his back pushed up against a vacant storefront wall, thumbing through the “help wanted” section of a few-days-old copy of our local paper and I was moved to offer him a couple of dollars for which he said,…

Like Water

14651465 views1818 comments1414 favs

I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.

Begettings

13591359 views1818 comments1212 favs

However did we make it this far/ without murdering one another as the other sleeps

Taking a Bath with my iNuke

306306 views1818 comments88 favs

Mickey Mouse mini-nukes are often placed in children's school lunch boxes for cooling sandwiches, though an accidental meltdown could cause the food to become dangerously hot in both senses of the term.

Removals

13401340 views1818 comments88 favs

Her mother was worried.

Iowa Voters

17461746 views1818 comments1010 favs

I miss my fire from the first three races

Teleprompts

13791379 views1818 comments1010 favs

In what appears to have been a coordinated, coast-to-coast attack, country clubs across America were attacked last night with firebombs and heavy contaminations of herbicides.

I Scream

13521352 views1818 comments33 favs

she peeled back the white wrapper from around her ice cream sandwich slowly, methodically

Louis Belfast

16251625 views1818 comments1313 favs

"You know, there really is a death of the heart."

Wind Drinks Time Like Wine

17011701 views1818 comments99 favs

but let's stop and take another look at things could it be through our closed eyes that we didn't really know what we were talking about that there never was a surprise

Year End Closeout

13101310 views1818 comments1010 favs

At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

Sweet Dreams

17201720 views1818 comments1313 favs

But tonight the circus is dark. She is free to go to her lover, to embrace, to float in the night sky.

Reincarnation for T. Waits

17091709 views1818 comments1515 favs

Your fuckin' shoe.

Dead Girl Rolling

11101110 views1818 comments99 favs

They left me on a gurney for hours...

Almost

19741974 views1818 comments1414 favs

From the way she scooped him from his buggy, shushed him, kissed his tears and hugged him...

Swicks Rule!

16251625 views1818 comments99 favs

She waves her hand around, says, “Pah!” and starts digging invisible things out of the potato salad with her bare hands.

No Adjectives

23142314 views1818 comments1212 favs

She looked up, blinked. Fuck are you? I shook my head. Nobody you’ll remember, I said.

Black Orchids

14701470 views1818 comments88 favs

I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.

Small Snow Haiku.

13371337 views1818 comments99 favs

A small snow.

Funny Jokes

68486848 views1818 comments1717 favs

Why was the broom late for work?

The Greatest Narcissist on Earth

15771577 views1818 comments1515 favs

I forgot how masterful you are, way better than a pickpocket. After our meeting, I drove home with one hand. It felt funny but I figured I'd absentmindedly put the other in my purse or tossed it into the backseat with my jacket. In my…

THE SHIFT

13471347 views1818 comments88 favs

"leaves &damage, &shifts of shape"