Most discussed stories

Oh, Danny Boy

14291429 views22 comments00 favs

I wore a padded bra. Proud of my tits. D. ordered a Bloody May, I had a vodka tonic. After the second drink I slipped out into the fog, and smoked a little weed. I could see Long Island College Hospital across the street. To my right, the BQE rose up

Slime

14841484 views22 comments22 favs

Once or twice he sees her around town when he’s out driving but other than that, I mean, it’s not like he was stalking her, he didn’t know where she went to school or what she did for a part-time job, he didn’t care, he wasn’t interested.

A Few Images Illuminating the Difficulty of Being a Young, Talentless Writer in Manila

934934 views22 comments11 fav

A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow

Our Notorious Youth

517517 views22 comments11 fav

Our flesh was on fire like a flute with wind, or a little reed next to the dried river. I was like a voyeur whose heart was a sponge, brushing up against all that disturbed man. I was only and ever the flower of our notorious youth, aware of more than the

Metropolitan

10991099 views22 comments11 fav

Metropolitan I. Atlantic harbinger of this our swaddled dawn: Mistaking moon's sea sweep for this the frown The sky's plain-countenanced creatures maytimes weep Upon the surface-sundown of our lawn, When gaily surfaced for…

Baby Catalogue

12081208 views22 comments22 favs

my mouth is open, ready to bite your tiny toes

The Longer

811811 views22 comments00 favs

The longer this goes on the worse it gets.

The 0th Parallel

10141014 views22 comments00 favs

These are the days you wish would never end.

that whistle of yours

841841 views22 comments11 fav

I heard a story once that said we are all entitled to seven good years. No, wait, that is not exactly what it said. Rather, it was more plaintive and inquiring. The feeling that song gave was more one of asking the question: Wasn’t I supposed to get sev

Insidious

10661066 views22 comments11 fav

Thirty years later – and all the years in between – Alan Walton would remember how insidious it was, the anger that started that night with Quinton Harris, fifteen years old and the undisputed leader of the troop, and spread like a virus to the other boys

It’s Real TV, Uncle Remus

749749 views22 comments22 favs

We’re lost in a brambly aberration, thorny tangles of a wacky nation.

Florence, of Irvine

732732 views22 comments00 favs

she said, point blank, “Can you help me? I need a lover, and a friend.” “I can be both,” I said. I don’t know, I just opened my mouth and out it flew. You don’t even stop to think what you might be saying at a moment like that. I mean, she knew I was s

Canvas

10051005 views22 comments11 fav

The artist with fork and trowel. The paint; soil, seed, seedling or plug.

Lapses

833833 views22 comments11 fav

The body does what a body must

Channel Zero

11661166 views22 comments11 fav

A killer enters the room. No one notices, and the show goes on.

The I-Penis

705705 views22 comments11 fav

You’ll end bar-hopping once and for all You’ll never leave the house Steve took this one with him to the grave because he knew nerds everywhere would stop speaking to him Yes, that’s right, it’s the magnificent new I-Penis with built-in 10 m

How To Find A Galaxy In The Dark

10951095 views22 comments11 fav

I don't know what I'd expected from the week of mourning after my mother died but I sure hadn't pictured this marathon cocktail party. Our house is packed with people, food, booze and borrowed chairs. People I haven't seen in years keep turning up with casseroles.I'm…

Sack

863863 views22 comments00 favs

He cut a hole in the sack

Closest Living Relative

969969 views22 comments00 favs

Uncles. Cousins. Enos. No matter how loosely a net is woven, eventually the strands come together again.

My House In The Middle Of The Ocean

15471547 views22 comments11 fav

I built a house in the middle of the ocean. I used sunlight for nails. Wind for wood. Stars for chandeliers, the moon for a doorknob.

The Ice Scraper Symphony

10971097 views22 comments00 favs

Stay tuned for my next short - Candle Smoke Wishes - COMING SOON ON A MONITOR NEAR YOU!!

Five Million Yen: Chapter 40

10931093 views22 comments11 fav

Ben was dreaming of sex with Claudia. But, in his dream, he could hear Dan Arris calling his name and pounding on a door. The fear of Dan Arris was pushing out the delights of Claudia.

Snowbound

10551055 views22 comments11 fav

Shut up.You shut up.That's disgusting.You should talk.Fuck off.Fuck me.whore.Yes.More.Shut up.

Killing Joy

935935 views22 comments11 fav

In certain sense most fractured in each part, the whole Resolves itself more central, but I sense no calm In the cyclone's eye, the forest of the soul, Where plants this eidolon of poisoned charm. This is the secret of the hurricanes, reaping Out from…

Ode to my Mojo

617617 views22 comments22 favs

Hey Mojo!Where'd you go?I didn't realize you were goneuntil I noticed I had lost the springin my step.I was knocking myself against walls.I was tripping over the dog.I was petting myself.I was alone in a roomwith no music and only a Picassopainting staring back at me.What a…

Willy Takes the Night Train to Heaven

14451445 views22 comments00 favs

a store called ROCKING FROCKS. In its window was a black tee shirt that said in big white letters, I'M NOT A SLUT, I'M WITH THE BAND.

Milton wrote his best lines blind

14471447 views22 comments00 favs

the unhealthiness of obsession and control until the lines burn bright

Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation

12371237 views22 comments22 favs

To pay the bill.

Into the Mirror

10201020 views22 comments00 favs

Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.

For My F-Fellow St-Stutterers

12031203 views22 comments11 fav

Funny, funny stuff. She'll be here all week--be sure and tip your speech therapist!