Most discussed stories

Music That Tastes Like Blood

13121312 views11 comment00 favs

It is your music that makes me want to crack open my ribcage and rip out my heart as it still beats, to cauterize my carotids, and shove the mechanical insides of a clock into my thoracic cavity.

and now for the news ...

10731073 views11 comment00 favs

nope. no excerpt for you.

Concubine from a Japanese Garden

256256 views11 comment11 fav

Conjuring white five-pointed stars. Irreproachable as Winter.Consonant with a new moon. Rising like an anchor.Not one to walk behind. No destinies touch your charities.None signal your transparencies. Shedding words like skin. Cantillating…

Spare Tire

903903 views11 comment11 fav

'What now!' he thought, like a goddamn idiot, chiding himself like a fool giving himself a slap upside the head. 'Last thing I need is a shootout!'

Cory's Carousel

16791679 views11 comment11 fav

There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.

7th-grade haiku

927927 views11 comment11 fav

Route 346

14401440 views11 comment11 fav

Route 346 is the way Pop drove to Troy long after everybody else took Route 2. Today Charlie and I drive in the opposite direction. Back then, Pop drove us to Troy on Route 346 on Sunday afternoons with the car windows…

Yamoussoukro, 2012

12761276 views11 comment00 favs

He is underneath them. His head is like the head of a worm.

Man and Dirt

13601360 views11 comment11 fav

Wherever you decide to grow Please remember to ask the dirt ‘Am I still dust’

Behind the Writing - Music

16321632 views11 comment00 favs

A powerful song is often a result of imaginative storytelling through a unique “voice” and pitch-perfect musicality.

The Future and Why We are Afraid

17281728 views11 comment11 fav

Once, when I had not talked to you in a long time, I woke with your name in my mouth.

Flight

10491049 views11 comment00 favs

They’re friends, him and Sissy and Raul, you know, and live upstairs from Asa and he went up there. He kept texting me saying, B here all night, follow u 2 airport. Yelled down through the floor. Real crazy shit.

Four Days in Singapore

729729 views11 comment11 fav

I’ve lost something at sea / and am at a foreign island to find it.

Another Life Altogether

12641264 views11 comment11 fav

{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…

The Blistering Continent

10841084 views11 comment11 fav

Marvin and first had met four years ago on an iron train peeling through the seething Asian night on rails between Bangkok and Chiang Mai city...

And We Sell Apples 1977

18051805 views11 comment11 fav

I hear the car door slam. Steve, about to duck daddy-duty: Just gonna take a run to the Quickway. "Rudy," I say, "go get in the car. Tell Papo I said Wait."

Insomnia

19781978 views11 comment11 fav

They sit, they create, they watch.

Get Thee to a Nunnery

11251125 views11 comment00 favs

I was in a nunnery wondering how I wound up in the midst of so many nuns as it wasn't my nature to hang out with nuns. I find them tedious and redundant, though I do have to say I appreciate their economy with words. You never really saw a…

Forevergrad

11691169 views11 comment11 fav

The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m

Old Haunts

15931593 views11 comment22 favs

“Why do you write filth?” they howl

Scene from the Clinic

16341634 views11 comment11 fav

No way to know why she's here, but scars and scabs can hold more information than a file or chart.

Carpe Mentis

12121212 views11 comment00 favs

machine utility of thought, intangible aesthetic of sentiment.

Settling

25952595 views11 comment00 favs

But she knew what she would find. She knew it all the moment she felt the sticky fingerprints behind the slat of her old oak slay bed. The fingerprints that would only be left from a person grabbing it from behind their head. The fingerprints that she

Where Does Love Come?

12361236 views11 comment11 fav

He was rummaging through his giant pile of clothing on the floor, looking for something to wear to sleep. When he couldn't quite tell what was dirty and what was clean, he knew it was time for laundry. Just as he was going to…

Always / Never

10341034 views11 comment11 fav

"... A set of vertebrae disintegrate and a woman falls face first into her dinner plate."

The Poetry Section

10241024 views11 comment00 favs

In the poetry section, no one talks except to say, "excuse me," or, "wow," or, "amazing," with the second 'a' stretched out like a blacktop highway. But mostly they say, "excuse me." and that's only because someone dressed in a corduroy jacket is …

Ai Kitano

10991099 views11 comment00 favs

Sick of sight, Ai Kitano constructed glasses by which the wearer was rendered totally blind.

Award Season

11181118 views11 comment11 fav

I made the List!

Determination without Negation: A Love Story

11241124 views11 comment00 favs

In dreams begin responsibilities--Yeats I'm writing this story to tell you about a mistake, despite the fact that you might find it boring or might consider my writing style onerous or overeager. I begin with…

At the Balcony

11581158 views11 comment22 favs

I was setting up a mattress and a lamp in the balcony of my house because a boy, G., told me he was coming to fuck me.