Most read stories

Taunting the Tiger

17431743 views00 comments00 favs

I was headed back inside my den since these creeps just wouldn’t stop and thought they were the most hilarious creatures on the face of the earth, and I was afraid, to be honest, that one of their missiles might hit me in the eye. That’s when I n

Circumstance

17431743 views2121 comments1111 favs

In a time of drought,/ the sound of rain is sweet/ and joyful music.

Workingman

17431743 views88 comments77 favs

He died in the ditch he dug.

Napomo 17: April 13 - 18

17421742 views1414 comments77 favs

Bones consolidate with age. The fleshy/ bits of body follow by wrinkling and/ spreading outward, appearing to expand.

Motel

17421742 views77 comments66 favs

Brody was standing against the wall with one hand in his hip pocket, as if he was holding a gun. The motel was set in the undergrowth of several weedy small towns, but a flashing neon sign made it impossible to miss from the road. We used it as a safe hou

Esther

17421742 views55 comments00 favs

the moon is the pupil of the cave’s eye

Street Parking

17421742 views1111 comments77 favs

“Everything is neon, “ I say.

Appeasement

17421742 views11 comment11 fav

No, I’m not at the junior high bus stop. I’m at the dining room table with my parents.

Rejected York Peppermint Pattie Commercial Blurbs

17421742 views44 comments11 fav

When I bite into a York Peppermint Pattie, I get the sensation of being curled in a ball inside a cold, dark cave filled with my darkest, most paralyzing fears.

A DEBT

17421742 views11 comment11 fav

A rose and two dollars. Where did they come from? I didn't know anyone who had visited my parents' grave recently, yet that evening I saw a white rose on my mother's side and two bucks on my father's. I took the money and placed my own flowers with the rose. It had to have…

Aurora

17421742 views99 comments66 favs

Soon everyone will know what is coming.You cast a spell of heaviness and I crumple, horizontal. Like Aurora, sleep is my destiny.Tantalus in reverse, my curse from food forever I will flee, while everything changes;discomfort and…

Almost Like Real Skin

17421742 views88 comments66 favs

...this dim and empty room, and behind a wall of glass a flag materialized, backlit and fluttering, and I am not saying what country's flag it was, just that it was a flag, that awesome symbol of the nation state and fervid jingoism...

The Burning of Deyrolle or Losing Hugh

17421742 views00 comments00 favs

Deyrolle, established by the granddaughter of Jean–Babtiste Deyrolle, to house his scientific debris became a Paris fixture. A museum masquerading as a store and when casually mentioned in HG or when it was discovered that David Sedaris was an aficionado

I Wanna Do This

17421742 views1010 comments66 favs

strobe lights wash me up and down and here is the hottest mad dancer of the early morning black and loaded rushed into a freeze frame ...Also link to the song "Nope"

Relative Indifference

17421742 views22 comments00 favs

The more indifferent he had become towards life, the more she had become towards him.

Real

17421742 views66 comments66 favs

That was the start of it, the vigils. Every night at the foot of the Gilt Spears a group of people congregated in a housing estate to look up at the stars. Housewives with working away husbands, fractious toddlers hanging upside down…

For the Woman Who Has a Hundred

17421742 views22 comments11 fav

“What would you get? What should you give a lady who’s one hundred for her birthday?”

Will Write For Crab Cakes

17421742 views11 comment11 fav

By: Roz Warren (and Janet Golden)I'm a humor writer. My work appears in publications from The Funny Times to The New York Times. Janet is a history professor whose writing was confined to academic journals and the occasional op-ed. Driving back from the Jersey shore one…

Wounds & The People Who Poke Them

17421742 views22 comments22 favs

My friend once told me about this island of trash in the Pacific. He said that if you threw a piece of trash in any body of water it would find its way there somehow.

Sunset/Another Wasted Day

17421742 views22 comments11 fav

He leans against the truck, the sun sinking on the day, shadows inching down the side of the house, yawning towards the horizon.

Happy Birthday... Mr. President

17411741 views33 comments11 fav

Her dress swirled around her as she stepped into the ballroom, looking every bit as sultry as her recent Playboy cover...

A Familiar Song of Love Song

17411741 views1010 comments99 favs

Take a bird down from the sky, just for a moment, it endears you to me. Find a raindrop in the pouring rain, it is a jewel beyond compare, unless you Are directly in possession of it. Drop it. There is a star that I cannot help seeing In the…

smitten in an inner place

17411741 views99 comments11 fav

for paul celan take it like an amulet a jewel like a tulip filling up the expanse of green the volatile view from within your thin wrist you write into manuscript for the hand is a map with but grasping still it is but a like two palms like a…

So Sweet

17411741 views44 comments22 favs

    I met a girl so sweet, So sweet that she could Break your heart   No girl, no one should Be so sweet So sweet that she melts My depression   Increase my anxiety   No one should be so sweet   More like a little girl Than her 25 years   If…

Channeling Dr. Gonzo

17411741 views22 comments11 fav

“We’re on our way to gold country to find the American Dream.” No point in mentioning the huge prairie dogs, the ones swarming and screeching beneath the horses in their Hell’s Angel gear and Nixon masks.

and Henry Rollins as Lydia Grant

17411741 views99 comments99 favs

At this stage of the game you don't even matter enough to have an asshole.

Flight Path

17411741 views66 comments55 favs

Those who love aluminum bellies and landing gear and ailerons... that ilk... settled at the western edge of of LAX 24R 6L and called the encampment Flight Path.

haiku apolitical

17411741 views77 comments77 favs

can they approve, our/gods in our wallets? only/when we tell them to.

The Missing Years

17411741 views44 comments11 fav

Andrew smiled at her while he pulled out his penis. He then held it between his fingers and tugged at it, stretching it much like a rubber band

a supermarket horror story

17411741 views22 comments22 favs

stoned,/ i made the mistake/ of walking to the store across the busy street/ to find myself in the middle/ of the pep-up/ for a basketball game/ or something like that.