Most read stories

the ethics of graffiti

16301630 views1212 comments1212 favs

Couples

16301630 views44 comments44 favs

She served him pie she knew was ruined.

Call Me Naked

16301630 views11 comment00 favs

[He] practiced aromatherapy and licentiousness, in no particular order.

The Dark

16301630 views66 comments44 favs

Outlined against the thinly layered darkness of the room, there is a silhouette of a small boy with his feet pulled up to the chin, failing to hold its own against the thousand stares from the deep violating the stillness of his room, their long familiarity with the…

Sacred

16301630 views66 comments22 favs

"What the fuck are you looking at, Carl?" She snaps, turning her head toward me as the truck edges off the road and into a field of tobacco, into those broad green leaves of ancient sacristy and modern ablution. This is not a blissful kind of field. It is not full…

Listening to Neil Young on a Gray Day and Understanding Clearly What My Grandfather Told Me Long Ago

16301630 views1717 comments1515 favs

I'm a lot wiser now but so what?

Habits Die Hard

16301630 views1111 comments22 favs

Although radiation and chemo rendered him a wraith...

MY WAR

16301630 views1111 comments33 favs

In May of 1982, my daughter and I planned a trip…

Myra's Mother

16301630 views55 comments33 favs

Smoking is like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend: you know she's bad for you and that it won't work out, but it feels so familiar and comfortable and so easy to slide back into.

Ascension

16301630 views55 comments44 favs

He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.

Road Trip

16291629 views1010 comments77 favs

I threw my hand / at the gearshift/ the car glided off.

Collapsible Horizon

16291629 views44 comments22 favs

Mama sleeps in bed with us. The blue of her ghost sleeps underneath me. I love her more than anything. What does she think when we are naked, when we yell, or mimic, imbibe, curse, cry, shake, make love, roll over on her, want to die?

Ibby's Falafel

16291629 views33 comments11 fav

Dark hung over the night like an occupation force. Across the street a Cuban diner fought it off with green and yellow neon lights, Latin rhythm beating through the air.

Twin Lakes of Whiskey

16281628 views77 comments44 favs

not that we ever had before

Lewti & Loki

16281628 views1010 comments22 favs

I had no portent this would occur, / Ne'er did I see this happening, / Not days before, nor those coming;

Malady

16281628 views88 comments55 favs

When the malady struck and the world fell dark at noon, she and I groped the walls and found our front door. Outside, bewildered, we heard the whine of jets in free-fall, explosions in the imagined distance. And we heard a car — or was it a truck that veered…

Considering a Career

16281628 views1515 comments88 favs

Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/ in an idiosyncrasy that strives/ to become fresh and fails

Removals

16281628 views1818 comments88 favs

Her mother was worried.

A Tall Order

16281628 views66 comments33 favs

There was something about her eyes that he couldn't shake. He stood in line, waiting for his chicken finger tenders and one large size 32 oz. cola. No salad (a childhood aversion he had never abandoned), and no mashed potatoes. Friday night and the eve

Flood

16281628 views77 comments44 favs

My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…

Boy's Worst Friend

16281628 views44 comments33 favs

After dinner, I looked forward to taking a shower and cleansing myself of the day’s mishap. Cher had other plans.As I left the bathroom, Cher nipped me in the butt, taking my towel, skin, and blood with her. I remember writhing on the floor outside my sis

Sowers of Nothing (ELECTRIC DELIRIUM 1.2)

16281628 views00 comments00 favs

We dig up conscience-tunnels, pluck the play-flower of present choice for fun, run aground, past this dimly lit, though not to be underestimated, stage, and open door upon empty door, to nothing, for the lights are a pulse flickering in the perceptual per

Flannery O'Connor's Tea Party

16281628 views00 comments00 favs

“He's the one who took five tries to find your vein during your last blood draw, right?” This question spilled from the row of twenty EKG machines that now made up the hospital building's larynx

Woman On A Bicycle

16281628 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.

Snatch 9 (there's been a time lapse)

16281628 views88 comments77 favs

Blocks context...

December Can Feel Like April Here

16281628 views1919 comments1111 favs

Today the isobars are far apart.

Suicide Machines

16281628 views22 comments33 favs

["Mea Culpa" means: I don't care what you think, sorry is when I feel like making you hear me say it.]

Leaky Pipes

16271627 views22 comments00 favs

I was thinking everything was OK, until one day I woke up and realized that I was living on an entirely different planet, and you seemed like a complete stranger to me. I was feeling so ashamed of these feelings, that I couldn't even tell you about them. I couldn't…

It Ain't Berklee College Of Music

16271627 views33 comments22 favs

“You know who Neil Peart looks like?” Gram said, ignoring Aaron's outburst.

Black Children Learn Derivatives

16271627 views55 comments55 favs

The white faces of the train look up in an attempt to satisfy presumption, smoothing out any interest into glassy eyed gestures toward looking but lacking the very important quality of sight.