Most discussed stories

One-Sided Conversation

11841184 views00 comments00 favs

[I STILL CAN'T GET THE "CENTERING" FORMAT THINGEE — WHAT? "JUSTIFY CENTER"? THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED? YEAH — THAT ONE! TO WORK! WHAT THE—]

The Vanes of Foxes

37663766 views00 comments00 favs

If you are a fox then I am also a fox.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.13

16741674 views00 comments00 favs

Street by street, non-combatants ran away. Each one passed by the Society and law enforcement screaming.

Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection

14621462 views00 comments00 favs

If it was truly new territory of the mind, he thought he might find some place that resembled the world as his dad envisioned it, having already decided that his father could never turn back across the frontier to the old world of youth

Cattle – station – church - meadows

14761476 views00 comments00 favs

It may be her destination, but was it also her destiny? In a desperate wave of inspiration, she decided to let fate take its course.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

16701670 views00 comments00 favs

A woman is fishing in the Seine at the far left of the painting, while time is suspended and light remains. One man plays a trumpet. A half dozen people sit or walk under parasols. Couples stroll and children run or sit or stand beside their p

Adios

17341734 views00 comments00 favs

After seventeen years of struggling to wake up early in the morning, I had managed to wake up on my own. Actually, I think it was because I was unable to sleep that I was up so early. I had laid on the bed all night, staring at the dark ceiling, taking in every…

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.4 - c.3

16841684 views00 comments00 favs

Jumping from roof to roof, Keiko and Rumiko remained quiet after hearing Mayumi’s story. They saw the shrine ahead but they knew they were going to run out of buildings to stay above.

Release

23372337 views00 comments00 favs

One of the runners was collecting bags of dead animals to bring back to the van. Nicholas looked inside one of the bags, but all he saw was a stringy mess of fur and tissue. The runner grabbed the bag from Nicholas. He shrugged and said "hammers.

The Scenes Speak for Themslves

19251925 views00 comments00 favs

We are the images, the tableau vivant, the one-person shows, the scenes from scattered plays. We wait for the Caretaker who prompts us to play and replay one by one on her rounds.

Not from the self but from the Other

21292129 views00 comments11 fav

meanings figure into traffic streams reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V' another passing human ear; tall, tall buildings paper poised on horizon. situations gape in and out of seconds corners turn to disappearance, witness follows fingers…

Control

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

The eater's pose extending the fork in hand toward the bowl wherein the appetizer lay readied. Salad, carefully configured for its purposes mixing vitality with pleasure which should not be differentiated, don't you agree? Colors selected for their…

I'm Despondent, Yes...

10021002 views00 comments00 favs

Do you remember who Laura S was? She was the one who tore out Shel’s heart. (It so happened that she was one of Lynda’s closest friends, and knew all her secrets.) Shel started seeing a shrink after Laura dumped him, and he would go around s

Epic struggle between right and wrong...

13491349 views00 comments00 favs

The day was yesterday, November 11, 2010. I was home from work, and I pulled my car into the driveway. I stopped short of the garage to get out of the car and get the daily mail. Bills and unwanted coupons for places I didn't go and for items I don't…

The Cherry

15391539 views00 comments00 favs

He then spent his walk home to his single apartment spitting up various textures of red, combinations of cherry and blood mostly.

there's a light moving toward me in the sky

10251025 views00 comments00 favs

There’s a light moving toward me in the sky. How often at the edges of reason, the howling desire has taken me. Howling desire! How often it has taken me in its mouth, naked, and shaken me. And now there’s a light moving toward me in the sky. There’

Arcana Magi Pure - c.4

22282228 views00 comments00 favs

The stone floor was cold and the sky above had a purple haze. The setting sun hid beyond the trees outside the crumbled walls. Vines reached over the well as if it grabbed it like hand.

Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer

15131513 views00 comments00 favs

“Is that an erect annual plant in your codpiece, Mr. Flax, or are you just glad to see me?”

Little Doggy

11721172 views00 comments00 favs

"A gush of sand- peppered wind from a passing semi-trailer hit my face rousing me from my mental comparisons."

The Only Good Thing

7575 views00 comments00 favs

The slick compartments of chilli peppers and spiced corn and onions and mustard were barely visible through the bodies and rings of hair and soft loops of arms, and the thick meaty gassy air and the late summer air pushed the tent in on itself and I felt

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.2 - c.1

18131813 views00 comments00 favs

The sound of drums blared from down the street. Car horns tried to fight the sound. Mayumi and Keiko saw the size of the crowd walking past them increase.

Mutterings

16771677 views00 comments00 favs

That old woman's got to be senile or something. The other day she asked my daughter if I had a "thing about water." Sharon told her I didn't, but then came right in and asked me, "Mother, you got a thing about water?"

Whole Day Off

12871287 views00 comments00 favs

...an aggregation of physical nature with the abstraction of 'applicabilty,' more than just a word, but a magickal spell that conjures technology out of ecology.

The sound of your shoes

12431243 views00 comments00 favs

The smell of your chest, and the taste of your lips as they touch mine

In Search of a Meaningful Moment

15551555 views00 comments00 favs

She wheeled more deeply into the office towards Mason’s desk. Keith hurried to the desk and pulled the chair out of the way for her and a sat down next to her. She was blue-eyed, pale and completely hairless, which made it difficult to guess her age.

The Case Of The Limehouse Golem

24902490 views00 comments00 favs

Calmly I rang the bell for Mrs. Madison and sank with some relief onto the ottoman. In a crisis, a calm head and decisive action are called for. The housekeeper would surely know what to do.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Lasagna

16801680 views00 comments00 favs

When we talked about the lasagna, we were, I see now, talking about different things. I.e., I was talking about lasagna, and you were talking about almost everything but. You weren't talking about the dry, burnt noodles or…

Until, the Stars

11411141 views00 comments00 favs

Until the stars form last nightI zoom out with an empty heart.Whose forgiveness forgesseas of overabundance, parksUnder the river's bed as magazine?Jet heavy, my tenses shift in an operation between two frightened doctors. I'm hiding onside: the lines & in the branches…

Earth Day Celebration

14081408 views00 comments00 favs

At the annual Earth Day celebration, Frieda looked up in the sky and saw a lone goose. It had caught her attention with its call, echoing off the buildings and trees.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.3 - c.1

16461646 views00 comments00 favs

Emi stood up and turned to Mayumi. She did not know what else to say. There was a sense of helplessness.