Most read stories

Thanks for Looking After Sinamyn

16601660 views1313 comments44 favs

Here are a few tips/instructions to help you out (though I'm sure you'll do just fine by yourself!):Getting to the Apt.:If you're coming from Riverside, you'll want to turn onto Magnolia. So, if you're coming from north to south on Riverside, that means you'll want to turn…

Awaiting What the Afternoon May Bring

16601660 views1212 comments1010 favs

Another siege/ with kamikaze fervor.

Goldfish

16601660 views77 comments22 favs

The guy stretches out his arm as he rounds up the herd of ducks that only want to bob. He pulls down his sleeve over a heart tattoo, faded from being seen so many times. It’s a skinny sort of heart tattoo, an askew heart from where I stand, an arrow fro

Crescent City, Spring '97

16601660 views22 comments00 favs

It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The

#HOWRU

16601660 views55 comments55 favs

Where you used to exist, there will only be spaces.

The Committee

16601660 views88 comments66 favs

We are prisoners of anticipation.

Someday, Somewhere, waiting for me.

16601660 views55 comments33 favs

Out in the open air, the sun's rays washing over the dead, open fields, Nick lay, his back against the wall of the train platform, eyes facing the sky, hands outstretched to the…

The Red Suitcase: (Conclusion)

16601660 views77 comments55 favs

—You must be joking, he laughed.

Shredded

16601660 views55 comments33 favs

"...you are a freak of nature..."

Six Points of Light/ Dark Star

16601660 views1818 comments1717 favs

Johan was telling stories about the occupation. The Germans were stupid, he said.

Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies)

16591659 views66 comments66 favs

Oh, gracious mercy, oh...

You Atop Franz Josef Glacier, Twelve Miles From the Tasman Sea

16591659 views1616 comments1010 favs

58 words

Four Out of Seven

16591659 views22 comments11 fav

Four nights out of sevenI will lay with youFour nights out of sevenIt's the best I can do In the day, we will bake our breadAt night, ha, we will break our bed!Four nights out of seven, I will be with you

A Thousand Words

16591659 views00 comments00 favs

Photographs can create, both good and bad. They can create a way to make a living, but they can also create opportunities for black mail, divorce settlements and most of all they can create power.

INGOB

16591659 views66 comments55 favs

They think Van Gogh heard music when he looked at his starry nights. Working at a Bingo parlor, you get to believing in a one-in-a-million shot just as much as you doubt the rarity of a sure thing. I only worked part time at the bingo parlor because I ne

Snatch (6)

16591659 views1212 comments1111 favs

"What?"

The Meaning of Life

16591659 views1111 comments66 favs

One must not confuse the meaning / of life with the joy of living

Unseenly

16581658 views2222 comments1414 favs

Over the years, his face began to alter

The Game

16581658 views22 comments11 fav

Cammie Richard's house was just like all the others in Wilchester. The exterior was vaguely reminiscent of the Dutch style; gray stone with cross beams of dark wood, with two stories and a bay window. Her yard was fertilizer green, with a giant STRATFORD FOOTBALL…

Cartoon Campfire

16581658 views99 comments88 favs

This is the parallel room I keep my heart in. Got a solo fireplace. I don't want to invite anything else into the story. It doesn't matter if no one knocks on the door ever again. I'm too shy to hope for much more than a couple of Interesting shadows…

A Tragedy In Three Acts (St. Petersburg Blues)

16581658 views00 comments00 favs

His thought was shattered then by the horrible grind of the telephone in the hall. Surely not for me, he thought. One of the other tenants has a friend who’s landed vipivka, no doubt after 39 straight days of hunt. Booze is so damnably hard to find

Power

16581658 views66 comments44 favs

You're thinking I don't have a conscience, right? I'm asking you.

Ricky's Condition

16581658 views22 comments00 favs

At first it was just holding hands and talking about Ricky's condition. Then it was leaning into each other on the sofa, Ben whispering my name into my hair, me wanting to put my hand on his thigh.

The Edge of Night

16581658 views33 comments33 favs

The night wrapped its arms around us as we drove west, taking the highway past Medford towards Philly. The kids were asleep in the backseat and we were both counting the mile markers, staring out the windows with quiet eyes. I listened to the drone of the…

I Wish I Could Say This to Your Face

16571657 views1818 comments55 favs

The day you came home, after three extended tours in Afghanistan, I wanted to welcome you at the bus station, but I was afraid you'd attach yourself to me again.

Nude Body of Gutters

16571657 views44 comments33 favs

You lose her. In the vortex of guttered water, her tangled hair entwines. Tornado-like. Her body spinning boisterously at its core. Her name: Izra—the wooden doll with black pebbled eyes. …

Good Fences

16571657 views22 comments22 favs

I built the fence myself, strong and high and aesthetically pleasing. It was high enough to provide privacy on both sides, but from my bedroom balcony I could see everything. More than I wanted to see.

Boy Meets Girl

16571657 views00 comments00 favs

Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. It was an unexpected meeting, but one that was sure to bring a lot of change for both. They met at a work event. Some friends wanted to put together a company and they had both been invited to be part of the project. Boy smiled. Girl remained…

Arcana Magi Zero - c.1

16571657 views00 comments00 favs

The moon is now at the corner on pace for the horizon. On top of a tall business building in Downtown Newark stop a woman in a hood cloak.

Momma and Me

16571657 views77 comments66 favs

On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.