Most discussed stories

Trapped

929929 views22 comments00 favs

They were overweight, diabetic, and trapped in a cellphone dead zone.

Science Homework

16731673 views22 comments22 favs

The difficulty of disabled parenting was predictable, but nothing could prepare me for having to say goodbye to my wife again on problem #7.

Trope City

956956 views22 comments11 fav

If the pen travels over a sheet of paper, it is not long before a metaphor appears. A fast, beautiful metaphor like friendship, or deformity. Think of the pen as a penis and the ink as semen. I just sit and laugh. Time impregnates an opportunity and a lon

Blocked - A Facebook Tale

21622162 views22 comments00 favs

In the LOL playground environment of Facebook, one man's world is turned upside down when a new female friend suddenly blocks him from any further communication.From Chap.1: "I kept thinking there was something familiar about you, and now I remember."

No Dogs! No Dogs Allowed!

10751075 views22 comments22 favs

the impression I had gotten of him was that he was fifty percent yuppie and fifty percent drug dealer from Marin.

Kintsukuroi

11971197 views22 comments22 favs

The scared woman, she hides her flaws from the world.

Liebe Grüße

16071607 views22 comments00 favs

Left, I see parkland and cyclists and sun. Right: picnic blankets, naked men and lunchtime assignations.

dancing in the theater of the soul

875875 views22 comments11 fav

It’s the audacious testicle dancing in its theater, isn’t it? Carrying the legendary names. The bad blood, the jealousy the heart retains, living again under its skin, rarely enlivened by one of its own. There was enough angel in you that we would g

Collectors

858858 views22 comments00 favs

Touch the wrong thing and everything will crash down around you. This was the fatherly advice Warren bestowed upon me as we entered his Miami apartment.

Nearly A Woman

119119 views22 comments11 fav

On my way to the creative writing class the next week, I decided that, despite the canonical immortalization of ‘Virginia’ the nineteen-year-old nymph, I didn’t like his story. What was I going to say? Did he expect me to fuck him now? My hands grew sweat

The Year in Blogging: More Than Just Sonny Tufts

836836 views22 comments11 fav

1,919 followers in 105 countries come to this site every day looking for breaking news on the number of white kittens promoters are required to provide Mariah Carey at each concert.

Disappear Everywhere

10551055 views22 comments22 favs

heroes and monsters

Sometimes the bear eats you...

12611261 views22 comments11 fav

...something darkly malevolent looming above him...

Panthera pardus

20552055 views22 comments00 favs

A cruel panther gets its prey.

Lakota

15441544 views22 comments00 favs

The cabin has windows all around, like ribbon tying a birthday present.

The Boy from Thuringia

15791579 views22 comments11 fav

“The Boy from Thuringia” is part of a series of stories collectively called The History of Adoption. In it, a middle-aged man sets out rather obsessively to write a comprehensive history of the adopted child. In his attempts to finally begin this im

wine, women, song

742742 views22 comments11 fav

Details may be missing from our lives, but you can fill them in any time you want. Fill up the cup again with me. Come in and be warm, anytime you want. Wine, women, song, whatever. I sat on the curb once, in Mexico, saying, “Give me your salads, your o

Bible Stories for Atheist Babysitters

12051205 views22 comments11 fav

What the five-year-old I baby sit for wanted to do yesterday was torture his Barbies. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked.“Because we're bad guys!” said Hanina. “Can't we be good guys?”“Not today. Today we're bad…

Marion, Texas

14211421 views22 comments22 favs

Marion had decided to stop whenever she came upon Amarillo. It was close to two a.m. when she pulled into the motel parking lot. Momma, read the nametag on the woman at reception. Her face was illuminated by a TV. Her hair curlers were illuminated by the lone desk lamp…

#1

984984 views22 comments22 favs

“I am the Successor of Peter!” he said, supporting himself on the shepherd’s staff topped with a crucifix: “And you are trespassing on Holy Ground.” Baal said: “No ground is Holy for me.

Clean Out Your Desk, Naps. You're Being Replaced.

33053305 views22 comments11 fav

Sunday mornings my mother got up early—and dragged me kicking and screaming out of bed and into my nicest jeans and sweater. I have still never thanked her. (I’m borrowing, of course, but that doesn’t make it any less true.)

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 51

978978 views22 comments11 fav

Francesco tried to fix Oriana's face in his mind as he blindly walked to the taxi queue.

Standing in Line for Pac Man

12651265 views22 comments22 favs

Sitting on the couch when we got cable television, on that first day. Pressing buttons that sounded like the slap that your attention span would take as you made your way through the twenty, thirty, forty channels. As you grew older, the amount of channel

Beasts of the Talent Show

11711171 views22 comments11 fav

Finally my daughter emerges from behind the silver curtain, riding piggy-back on a gigantic proboscis monkey. She's preoccupied by his nose, and wrings it like a wet dishrag with both hands. If it hurts he's not showing it.

Just Another Plebian — Err, Philistine!

754754 views22 comments11 fav

I hate your guts.

Sleep and Poetry

33913391 views22 comments33 favs

It’s that, really, nothing else could be Sleep and Poetry, Mr. Keats

Puppet X, 2

11131113 views22 comments11 fav

It's important to sound human, I know To get fragile near your mother I myself get glimpses now and then

The World as Thrill and Calculation

11181118 views22 comments22 favs

Professor Immanuel Danda finished his Ph.D. at 21, which, according to most of his friends and a few of his enemies, makes him a genius, though, personally, he always found himself to be a scruffy loser, if one were to believe, above all else, the mirror

Prologue - On the Lips of Children

11801180 views22 comments11 fav

Their tongues were dry, her milk was gone, and the last bit of water in the plastic jug had evaporated.

Night fear illusions

641641 views22 comments11 fav

Sometimes/in the middle of the night/awake under a panoply/as caustic as Doré/illustrating Dante