Most discussed stories

POTATOES

802802 views00 comments00 favs

The hospital was a welcome relief. A short ambulance ride, a nice man holding your arm in a make-shift tourniquet, the red sirens flashing and screeching. Then you were…

Barbed Wire

887887 views00 comments11 fav

The end of love is a rusty barbed-wire fence.

Fugue State on the Waterway

569569 views00 comments00 favs

I am so lost in thought as I ride out of the woods that I forget which way I ought to turn, left or right; this can’t be good.

Woman On A Bicycle

12961296 views00 comments00 favs

And the ocean was black and green and blue—as your dress that clung to your body’s curve. Round as the bend of the water trailing the false line of the shore.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 21

926926 views00 comments00 favs

Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe

Five Million Yen: Chapter 32

936936 views00 comments00 favs

Wait a minute, said Ben. What do we really know?

Very F'_able

760760 views00 comments00 favs

I know what you were thinking. I know what I was thinking. We both looked in each others’ eyes and thought: “Very fuckable.”

(2) Liars

10631063 views00 comments00 favs

"Being honest with me," said her teacher, "will hopefully allow you to be honest with yourself--writing is about being honest, and articulating that honesty." It sounded like a riddle, and her teacher looked at her with the sanctimony of a wizard.

Starfight (working title)

13751375 views00 comments00 favs

In the sky, like it was a big movie screen, two ... well, she didn't even know what they were, but it was clear they were fighting. The one on the left, which looked something like a man, was dressed in some kind of loose blue and red tunic with baggy pan

"It's Just Breakfast" Fills Dating Service Niche

930930 views00 comments00 favs

"Too many people were presenting themselves in a false light on lunch dates,” she says. “The power ties on the men, the come-you-know-what-me pumps on the women–that’s not what married life is about.”

Walls

925925 views00 comments00 favs

No one would have picked me out of a crowd as the morbid one, but it was true that thoughts of easy exits floated through my consciousness regularly. I did my research—the easy methods, painless, guaranteed methods—and felt prepared to do, well, w

Awakening

11461146 views00 comments00 favs

I was awakened by a disturbing dream. He was no longer with me and I felt afraid. Everything was cloudy, almost blurry. I couldn't see much in front of me, but I knew for sure he wasn't there with me. Then he said the words I feared the most “I don't love you.…

Whataboutery

935935 views00 comments00 favs

A scene.

The Song of the Jardin Venus

13861386 views00 comments00 favs

The place is a living rebirth, And all death is only temporary. For soon in the land, the soil, For soon in

Thwart

888888 views00 comments00 favs

Daily, at 3:47 PM, below his office window, a child in an orange windbreaker sits in the last car of the T, in the rear seat, face pressed against glass.

Revolutions in the Sphere of Libidinal Economy

787787 views00 comments00 favs

He was unsure if it was Marxist fervor or some sort of erotic drive, an awry libidinal economy, after years of stasis and depression now experiencing stimulation; but he had this rule that when faced with an attractive man and a choice between yes and no,

Something like A Dark Knight

925925 views00 comments00 favs

Rob was having a hard time of it. His whole life was like that-- in and out of jail for assault, robbery and selling drugs. He tried to go straight. A career counselor, had set him up, with a job in a warehouse. But he just couldn't…

My First Post-9/11 Dream: In Which I Discover Life After Death

12851285 views00 comments00 favs

January 3rd EST/January 2nd PST 2002 It's 1:45 am or 10:45 pm depending on your philosophy about changing your watch when you fly. My plane is scheduled to land in San Francisco soon, but I'm completely disoriented because I've just had my first post-9/11 dream. …

How Josh Met Emily

10281028 views00 comments00 favs

“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”

unstoppable fire

767767 views00 comments00 favs

First of all, you should know an unstoppable fire made my panties roar for you. Maybe you will come to understand what effect you had on my life, my whole life, I mean. You should know the effect you had on people. Me, and Sharon too, both. And I’m sure

Arcana Magi Cross - c.5

12681268 views00 comments00 favs

They stood before the opened door, where cold vapor seeped out along their feet and chilled their bodies. The Avatars figured this was what the necromancer used to get inside.

The Glory Leak

10781078 views00 comments00 favs

This is the most frustrating kind of amnesia.

SEIZE

875875 views00 comments00 favs

“You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it…

Sharp Was the Blade: chapter from Ari Figue's Cat

14931493 views00 comments00 favs

You do not open the wound all at once. You do not slice or cut or slash. You stroke, as a lover's finger strokes the skin of her beloved. You slide the blade lightly over the surface. You do not think, I am hurting myself. You do not think, pain. You slid

Do You Smoke?

654654 views00 comments00 favs

Do you remember buying me a pair of knee-high boots? They laced up the front, I think. Really cool boots. Strange, the stuff you remember. To be truthful, I can't remember exactly what information Sharon and I exchanged about you. I know we didn't get

Childish

12061206 views00 comments00 favs

woke up to the sound of a diesel looked out the window to see i’m not home outta bed to see if you had called not a damn thing on my phone

Journey of Thade

57095709 views00 comments00 favs

"I will die here." It came like a warm breeze. The first thought that entered his mind when he came to. A low groan of pain escaped. A surrendering kind of sound one makes upon seeing their world collapse in all of its red raging glory. Fear g

Love Letter From a Content Writer

789789 views00 comments00 favs

This was supposed to be a love letter written by a content writer, then it just got weird.

gravelortian part 8

730730 views00 comments00 favs

When I come to we are by the lake

The Ouija Board Guide to True Facts about Cremation

15551555 views00 comments00 favs

Oh, and take off all your jewelry unless you want your relatives sifting you through a window screen looking for your diamond.