Most read stories

Blind Observer.

16871687 views22 comments22 favs

I sat there, observing the city people. Frowns upon all our faces. The rain moistened my heart and journal. A blind family; a trio. They used their wands to lead the way.Their faces read joy but, most importantly, satisfaction.My envy filled the damp page.

deflated

16871687 views11 comment11 fav

writing because it's the only drug i havesick on sadnessas the weight of the moment crumbling around me comes down some sweet second inspires…

End of Daze

16871687 views00 comments11 fav

Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.

When Not Laughing, Fortuna Only Smiles

16871687 views44 comments55 favs

. . . a visitor from the preceding century would have been aghast to the point of vomiting to behold the regard with which pandas were now held almost universally.

Old or Fat

16871687 views1111 comments99 favs

Which is worse?

A Cautionary Tale of Bike Swapping

16861686 views11 comment11 fav

There is no Vinny’s Liquor store as far as she can tell. She begins to think there is something odd, that people are jerking her chain, sending her on a fruitless mission. It feels familiar, like sorority hell week. Maybe there is no liquor store at al

a supermarket horror story

16861686 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.

The Planet Will Erase Us

16861686 views2323 comments1111 favs

We control/ nothing.

Old Man's Winter

16861686 views11 comment00 favs

The old man’s face is worn and tired, his nose and cheeks tinted red over his pale black skin from the frosty January winds blustering through town. He looks more than half frozen, which I don’t find surprising.

I'll be Home for Christmas - 2

16861686 views1616 comments66 favs

Warning: contains sexually suggestive comments.

For Kate

16861686 views88 comments44 favs

I had to kill someone today. Do not be alarmed, she was only real to me.

The Lot

16861686 views22 comments00 favs

The inhabitants of the surrounding neighborhood steered clear of the Lot, mindful of its existence, its countless drags of scrap, drenched with the fused association of many scenes and emotions from memory and experience. Left to its own devices, the place is now…

Museum Guard

16861686 views11 comment00 favs

"Well if we break for lunch at the same time wanna sit with me? I got fruit roll-ups I'll share." Cory looked up at the boy, removing her hand from the water only to brush a lock of dark hair from her eyes. He was still smirking, jaw crunching, saliva

Instinct

16861686 views88 comments99 favs

They coo and gurgle in the warmth of twig and down. They are so delicate, hard to look at without thinking of death. I tell them I want for them chief among all things strength, speed, resilience.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 2

16861686 views22 comments00 favs

A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.

Fireworks

16851685 views66 comments55 favs

You load the pipe and suck in the fireworks. Whistling missiles, slithering sparks, shivering teases, dripping embers. You fall asleep with flashing neon outside and the Fourth of July in your veins. When you wake up, your room is the saddest place o

Wall-to-Wall Bullshit (or, 'The Unauthorized Autobiography of Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III')

16851685 views00 comments00 favs

"I can't believe my 'best friend' and my 'girlfriend' would actually start dating if I authorized and coordinated repeated threesomes for us!" Robert Eww was saying, holding aloft a dagger and book, with an olive wreath around his head.

Axiology and Semantics: Expiration Dates

16851685 views55 comments55 favs

In my seriousness I am not making the case that none of “this” (our contemporaneity, our historical moment) “matters”.

The Ships of the Neva

16851685 views22 comments33 favs

Where in the shadows of these raw streets does love last longer than a flyer?

Librarians Love Me!

16851685 views22 comments11 fav

Librarians love me, you want to know why? I don’t dog-ear pages, I don’t even try.

So Sweet

16851685 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…

Confessions of a Cursing Librarian

16851685 views88 comments44 favs

Under no circumstances can you say "fuck" when you're working in a public library. Especially in the junior room.

Economics

16851685 views66 comments66 favs

Man, I'm not feeling so happy anymore. I tried to tackle my money but it slipped past me and ran out the door. I don't have a clue what to do. I'm hungry and I can't be worrying about you while both of us are trying to snag the same pair of…

Sweetie and Jack

16851685 views1313 comments1313 favs

Let's walk through this park. We can talk until dark. You have the look of a wolf. I'm not stupid, Jack. I'm a lamb, you'll see, once you get to know me. That tat is fierce and your leathers tight black. My ink is old and black suits me, I'm told. …

Play

16851685 views33 comments00 favs

“Jerome always came to play with ideas. It was like he was already thinking about it before we started. I loved his ideas. It caused me to think about it as well. We did variations on a theme and there was always a goal. Sometimes it was to grow and deliv

Broken Waters

16851685 views1515 comments99 favs

haiku apolitical

16851685 views77 comments77 favs

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

Curiosity Killed the Cat

16851685 views33 comments11 fav

rocker bogie system

The Last Time

16851685 views1313 comments99 favs

Stalks were scythed to submission one stroke at a time

Who's Chasing You?

16851685 views88 comments77 favs

“Who’s chasing you?”. When the answer is ‘no one’, it’s best to drive away, like you would from a forgettable Oregon town or someone who can’t love you more than they hate themselves.