Most read stories

Missing Letter

19321932 views1515 comments1010 favs

It's so far to get to where we aren't inthe way of someone's destructive progress.I'm only walking in my own gardensnow, but the big blue house is like an emptiedout envelope. I guess that makes this themissing letter. I don't know your heart's newaddress, but I once…

laundry

19321932 views1212 comments1010 favs

She’d once read the Time-Life Encyclopedia on The Universe and became obsessed with the woman from Alabama who was singled out, by a rock from a far place, in her sleep.

A Girl / An Elderly Woman / A Bear

19321932 views88 comments44 favs

A girl waiting at the door, heart in a Ziploc. An elderly woman stopping at the bank. A bear in a screaming contest with a troop of girl scouts.

Confessions of a Liturgical Voyeur

19321932 views1616 comments66 favs

...when she spoke, her voice still seemed to spill bourbon from a heavy crystal tumbler, and drift cigarette smoke in a dark paneled room.

Cherry Stem

19321932 views55 comments55 favs

He moved his rotten breath closer to my mouth, like he wanted to twirl his tongue around just to see how it felt.

The Dog

19321932 views66 comments22 favs

They stood at the intersection waiting for the light to change so they could cross the highway.

Things I saw before and after I broke into my neighbour's apartment

19311931 views22 comments00 favs

Before Plasma screen TV Futon Underwear (brief style) piled on kitchen chair Unopened mail from funeral parlour Water in the sink coloured orange with grease Desktop computer (flying toasters screen saver) Cigarette butts floating…

Cut

19311931 views1515 comments88 favs

Effluvium is such a lovely word, so hey surprise it covers rancid butter, vomit, fertile gingko fruit trekked in from the pavement.

When the Witness Calls

19311931 views1515 comments1111 favs

Here they come, those witnesses.

lament of Liu Ch'e . . . while elsewhere--

19311931 views77 comments66 favs

in her silk sleeves is silence sheathed.

Hobos: Paris vs. San Francisco

19311931 views77 comments22 favs

French pee runs stronger, less minty. In France the world' a pissoir.

What Gorillas 'Talk' About When Gorillas 'Talk' About Love

19311931 views1313 comments77 favs

Eons later, Bobo evolves into Shakespeare. Bonus feature: wings.

Badface Investigates – Scarification: (draft)

19311931 views00 comments00 favs

I can barely feel the blade as it first goes in. I'm pleasantly surprised. But as she drags the knife across my skin the pain increases becoming more and more painful rising to a point of unbearable agony the further she cuts.

AA For the Suicidal - alt.punk extract

19301930 views11 comment11 fav

The drive back to Sac does nothing to sober me up, either, and although Avaline and I are ready to hurl, she takes me to her afternoon support group, “Lean On Me: A Place for Manic-Depressive and Bipolar Sufferers to Come Together.”

Commute

19301930 views88 comments44 favs

Fred's ruined face stared back at him from a fractured, mold-spotted mirror. The remains of breakfast pooled around his feet and a pair of lace panties clung to his shoe, glued there by God knew what. Bits of flesh were stuck between his yellow teeth, alo

The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter)

19301930 views22 comments00 favs

When the writer expressed with subtle alacrity that he adored the painter, she was flattered and didn't raise objection. The writer-in his aloof manner, with experienced caution-pointedly wrote a poem directly for his muse. She never spoke of it, and hi

Dos Equis

19301930 views1616 comments88 favs

dos equis ambar sits cool and dark by my side

Mt. Hood

19301930 views33 comments33 favs

To what better worlds remain.

Antigone Détente

19301930 views1717 comments1414 favs

Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.

Stumptown Mary

19301930 views22 comments11 fav

so one time the Holy Ghost come down to Stumptown

Casting It

19301930 views1010 comments55 favs

Truth came out of it, a little bug that hovered there...

Strip (Her)

19301930 views77 comments66 favs

There’s not enough cigarette cloud to conceal her, malnourished and pale beneath blue and pink lights that summon 80s-era skate rinks. She saunters towards the center of the stage, asking her bored expression to convey detachment, while a DJ that fits the

Curb Appeal

19301930 views33 comments22 favs

He kept the lawn mowed at the perfect height. He mowed it twice a week to one inch. Some weeks he mowed it a third time for good measure.

If I Was A Bum

19301930 views33 comments00 favs

If I was a bum I’d risk everything for a drink or a smoke I would beg and curse and steal if I was a bum If I was a bum I would cuss out the Pope I would not vote for anyone because I would know truly they’d be telling gross lies

The Road Trip Trilogy

19301930 views00 comments00 favs

...It's my advice that this Fourth of July the Office of Homeland Security post the following instructions on your web site www.Ready.gov — people should act like my dog Lucy and just stay inside under the bed and tremble...

Girl Friends

19301930 views00 comments00 favs

Two women grab a table near a window in a coffee shop. Outside, the sky is the color of dulled aluminum. It is early spring and pollen assaults the air with a tint of sulfur.

Did I Tell You I Have Stripes On My Socks?

19291929 views88 comments55 favs

Kids are fascinated by me. Adults look the other way. Maybe it's my size. Or maybe it's the stories in the newspapers.

Borden, Dream on Lord of the Pies.

19291929 views22 comments11 fav

A plague of dykes mattered not. This spider-girl had driven the world of thought from Borden’s mind.

The Measure Of A Man

19291929 views44 comments11 fav

Cos I play hard that’s why. Everyday hard. You want someone who ain’t an everyday player ? Try our Closer. But ain’t his fault he’s always sat there in the pen, like he’s taken root. His number lines rely on the rest of the team. So he’s flatl

First the Newborn Birds on High and Then the Awful Climbing Beasts

19291929 views1212 comments88 favs

"Stop watching the news!Because the news contrives to frighten youTo make you feel small and aloneTo make you feel that your mind isn't your own"--MorrisseyThe world has gone crazy, but please let me make you One of my healing songs. You can eat it now, if you…