Most discussed stories

Horace

12691269 views22 comments22 favs

The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…

Mike's Confession in the Basement to Being Allergic to Balls

10771077 views22 comments22 favs

He arched an eyebrow.  He was "thinking" — a tricky thing to do, when you never read, even the newspaper.

So Different Now

13211321 views22 comments00 favs

She’s right there in Thirsty’s. In her usual spot. Drinking her usual drink. Yuengling on tap. One after another. And he’s there too. Behind the bar. Pouring drinks. One after another. Sometimes they speak. But mostly she orders. He pours. And

The Lives of Felix Gunderson

30063006 views22 comments00 favs

The lights turn on, the audience cheers. He raises his guitar, steps up to the microphone and sings. The rock star. He is a god.

Begonia {part two}

12831283 views22 comments00 favs

perhaps because they were holding hands and sharing tears; perhaps because the moon shone so brightly; perhaps for no reason at all; but both the Coriander and Isabella felt a surge of hope so strongly that both smiled a genuine smile.

FIREWORKS

976976 views22 comments00 favs

It's eight fifteen in the morning, my favorite time to call, and a guy named Ernie DeCampo answers the door in his work pants and a t-shirt. “Good morning, Mr.De Campo,” I say. “Do you have any fireworks in your home?” …

actual flesh

866866 views22 comments00 favs

With nipples like those, rose-colored, we could have fed a nation!

Tiger Milk (Part 4--the last act.)

12901290 views22 comments11 fav

"In the grave my lips will still be moving."

A Day at the Fair

10151015 views22 comments11 fav

“You just missed that last time,” the carney was saying as Sue Ellen walked up. “Give it one more try and I’ll bet you get your girl a big teddy bear. C’mon.”

The Lot

11791179 views22 comments00 favs

The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…

Goodbye

11151115 views22 comments22 favs

In the end, he knew he wasn’t going home.

Trot fast, my dapple gray!

11211121 views22 comments11 fav

It was night. It was Massachusetts. It was an interview in a snowstorm that Detective Vivian Diaz wished would go away.

Excerpt: Reykjavik: A Novel

839839 views22 comments22 favs

2. Reykjavík - 1986 …

There.

999999 views22 comments11 fav

There: you see a woman who has laid hands on the man she walks with. Tomorrow she will kill herself. Let me speak her life. Born alone, without event. Moon, gibbous. Month, Julius, the tail end. A Leo. Many other signs and wonders seen to have been…

Six Ways to Say Butterfly

13341334 views22 comments11 fav

He repeated these six words like a prayer. His only confession.

Through The Glass Dimly

13781378 views22 comments11 fav

Odd bookends stuck in familiar territory, we have become lethargic

Doll Parts

11121112 views22 comments11 fav

She’s always had one foot on a pedestal and the other in a gutter.

Danse Macabre

992992 views22 comments11 fav

Between the commercials, the local news is rampant with fusillade of bullets going raving mad, driven by some Machiavellian brainfuck, or bombshells smiling down with angels in black; emoticons of solid metal and pride. But you would put your faith in…

A Special Assignment

937937 views22 comments11 fav

In the graph of life or death, two axes will inevitably meet. Will it be as jarring as two sharp and well-hewn axes colliding?

DANCING ON AIR

15261526 views22 comments00 favs

You were at a saloon on Water Street. Witnesses say. You were taken out of the place and put on a sloop against your will. Witnesses don’t say.

Her

10151015 views22 comments00 favs

If you were looking for her She's in the backwoods grafting your skin from her thighs

(lost love, and longing)

572572 views22 comments11 fav

As has happened many times in my life, I heard his voice in my sleep and I saw him, though only briefly. Over the years I have seen this man I thought was him clearly and known when he was in danger – a car wreck at twenty (I was correct on everything b

Night Raid

876876 views22 comments00 favs

The president snapped awake at three AM. He realized he was a serial killer. Highly trained and equipped killers on his orders were summarily murdering thousands of raggedly dressed people in the name of Democracy.

Will There Be Cliff Notes?

10121012 views22 comments22 favs

The new members were asked to stand up and say their names. One obnoxious, pushy woman from L.A. stood up and said, "Ama Torrent, and I'm an alcoholic." The roomful of people started murmuring. Suddenly a man in his late fifties shot out of his chai

Cow & Fly

985985 views22 comments11 fav

If I can eat a cow...

Love’s Course Is Full of Stones

237237 views22 comments11 fav

Come with me to a place where the sun and moon are quiet, and day and night are equal to the point they are no more. Deny at last the springtime in its most false of promises. Reject that life is death, accept that death is life, ignore or embrace love's…

The several stages of grief

18181818 views22 comments00 favs

Robert was not in any sort of metaphysical or spiritual sense seeing himself, as in the scales falling from his eyes and seeing himself as he was. He was a long way from that kind of insight. He was literally seeing another himself.

The Arrival

13241324 views22 comments11 fav

Everybody knew it would happen. It didn’t happen exactly when or how they thought it would, but nonetheless it happened. “I told you it would happen,” a bearded man told his wife.

A Way of Place

994994 views22 comments11 fav

There are people walking, not knowing where they are, a way to peace is just that-- a place to go.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 3

12831283 views22 comments11 fav

Now you are a raving bare-forked fool madman with nothing.