Most discussed stories

The Panda

20352035 views22 comments11 fav

“Maybe she will like Boo-Ba-Loo, the large male from America,” they said. So they shipped in Boo-Ba-Loo and put him in the pen next to Ding-a-Ling.

A Man, a Market and a Mayor

786786 views22 comments00 favs

He sat on the floor and said, "I found this letter W in the jungle. It's b-b-beautiful,"

Why the World's Fireflies Are Being Counted

11951195 views22 comments11 fav

We got Bob Dylan on the wall wriggling from the lack of music and light among the spheres A great doubt has been raised and can be seen from far, far away for they are even afraid now in heaven that things can’t be going right and to

a writer's plight.

12361236 views22 comments22 favs

contact. intimacy. human fucking connection.

Fray

11151115 views22 comments22 favs

Someone set a pig aflame.

Meal

10301030 views22 comments00 favs

When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.

The Dingos Took Your Baby? So What--the Coyotes Ate My Cat

507507 views22 comments00 favs

Coyotes are like the French Resistance in Casablanca. If you kill them, hundreds--thousands!--rise to take their place.

Twister

396396 views22 comments11 fav

“You know this is your death car.”

Mermaids Need Other Mermaids

14641464 views22 comments22 favs

Pauleen tries to split open her legs because she doesn’t understand how to love someone without them.

Boise Poetry Slam

978978 views22 comments22 favs

The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”

The Seduction

11361136 views22 comments00 favs

You beckon me with an aperitif. The Kir Royal tingles, its bubbles tickling my nose. Its subtle black courant pulls me into your smile. I drink from your lips the champagne-tingle of your kiss.

I Was a Gigolo for a Fruit Fly Database

10261026 views22 comments22 favs

All I need is a break; to meet a woman who has access to a fruit fly database, either personally or through a trust established by her fruit-fly collecting grandfather.

Gateway to the Continent

14881488 views22 comments22 favs

I got to Victoria station at quarter to eleven on a Friday with nothing but a small leather bag and the vague idea of getting out of London.

Above the River's Edge

10931093 views22 comments00 favs

On the plains there are no cliffs, no vast mountain ranges to persuade us that we were somewhere above the world. Yearning to escape the pull of the Earth was the big dream of a plains boy…

arhythmetic

984984 views22 comments11 fav

these three remainders you, me and her are the legacy of simple math and boolean logic, not so much

Insatiable

10821082 views22 comments00 favs

More and more, as she watched him slide away from her in increments, she thought of that first summer together. How his searching hands would find her, any time of day, and pull her in for closer examination. How his eyes, his mouth, his tongue would set

Gothic Clockwork Apparatus Man

12011201 views22 comments22 favs

an awkward stage between glued popsicle stick marsupial, and mechanical tin foil mammal.

Mai Tai Daze

11611161 views22 comments00 favs

Some people hate Waikiki. Not me. Most hotels had lounges with live music, either inside or around the pool. Evenings were spent bar hopping up and down the strip, Kalakaua Avenue. The bars stayed open till 4:00 a.m. It was safe to walk…

The words you are known by: To Mitt Romney on the eve of his national convention, a cento

791791 views22 comments11 fav

I'll tell you what, Rick, ten-thousand bucks? [But] let Detroit go bankrupt. I'm running for office for Pete's sake,

How To Write A Poem

913913 views22 comments33 favs

-after Bhanu Kapil First, give yourself a good hard smack across the face. Repeat. Drink a glass of cognac in the bathtub. Do not get out until you rid yourself of the stink of poems. Build for yourself a workshop. In an abandoned fishhouse, if need…

This Story Has No Title

972972 views22 comments22 favs

They watch her, scald her skin with hot eyes whose stares run up and down her body like lice.

In Dubai

10951095 views22 comments22 favs

I do not know the species of birds here. / The two I see playing on the balcony at night / I can never call back.

First

12241224 views22 comments00 favs

“I can’t believe you went ahead and got pregnant without me,” I said.

The Longfellow Bridge Diaries: Part 2

18621862 views22 comments22 favs

They sway from his hips, the torn knapsack, and the corners of the pushcart

Falling

986986 views22 comments11 fav

Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Test Results

11021102 views22 comments11 fav

Six weeks, four thousand dollars, and twelve hundred miles later, I figured I was done with the cleansing process.

Confederates

12551255 views22 comments11 fav

I knew I spoke out of turn when I asked my father's old friend Charlie Jobe what he thought would come of moving to the veterans' camp, or "Village of the Deranged", as the newspaper has since taken to calling it. That was their description after all the

Boys Who Do the Bop (from The New Yorker)

11901190 views22 comments00 favs

Enid closes her bedroom door when she changes her clothes but leaves it ajar when she's doing her face; is she hoping some small talk might reach her dainty ears?

Carmencita and the Virgin

14181418 views22 comments33 favs

It's blues, bars and boots since you went away. You were wiferustled like sheep, like cattle.

When I Was Young In the Suburbs

14091409 views22 comments22 favs

When I was young in the suburbs, there was an empty lot across from our house. Bulldozers cleared the trees, shredded the bushes, and piled mounds of dirt three times as tall as I. But they never built a house.The dirt mounds, chain-link fences, and neon signs were…