Most read stories

Inside Vs. Out

16571657 views33 comments33 favs

It is another evening of ordinary sand. The moon worms, all mellow and white, glow shine over the laminated floor. Shay's bladder is full, and protesting with a thump of ache. Shay holds on nervously.Last time she pissed tiny silver fish that roiled in the froth of her…

Secrets and Piles of Money

16571657 views1212 comments77 favs

The dog awakens at the sound of a petal falling, sure that barbarians are at the gate. She opens wide her yellow teeth.

Something Horrible Has Happened

16571657 views1414 comments1010 favs

The smart drivers know the signs/ and the back street ways around the wreck.

Tak Tuckerby

16571657 views00 comments00 favs

Tak Tuckerby was a racecar driver. He could drive a racecar fast and handle a racecar perfectly. Unfortunately, Tak could only drive in one direction.

Upstairs on Montague Street

16571657 views22 comments00 favs

Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…

Prurient

16571657 views11 comment11 fav

I like him. I really, really like him in a way that I don’t like guys, not anymore, not after all the dirty lies into get in my pants, the dirtier lies to get out of them later, the indignities and the humiliations and the disappointments.

Seasonals

16571657 views1010 comments44 favs

Jasmine as skeined skins… of liquid hers, by willow courts, the lychee's water wains: as apple-moats flush fawn in russet light, through cherry floats, the leopard-dots of dawn. Branch to branchlet green …

Jagged Dog Story

16571657 views66 comments44 favs

But I had learned from ingesting Roberto’s glitter-eyed fear, it could make you never close enough, and then, never far enough away. And both at the same time.

Slight of Hand

16571657 views2020 comments1212 favs

Our ironies don’t make us happy

Personal Hell - I'm Not Scared, Just Disappointed

16561656 views33 comments33 favs

Satan is a wide-eyed Pollyanna mime who communicates with a ventriloquist dummy that corrects my grammar, speaks in internet acronyms, tells me that I’d be a lot prettier if I just smiled more and lost fifteen pounds, and nags me about how all my problems

Our Closet

16561656 views11 comment11 fav

I was enchanted with the suppleness and intensity of her movement and slowly edged to hide myself askew from the jam as not to disturb her.

Sin

16561656 views1313 comments1010 favs

Sin by Nonnie Augustine After my mother died, I met Aunt Shirley. I found her in dozens of snapshots piled in falling apart cardboard boxes we hauled down from the attic. Small girls, with huge bows bobby-pinned right on top of…

Milo

16561656 views44 comments44 favs

I call him a Staffordshire terrier. You call him a pit bull. Some people say he's lovable. Other people say he'll bite your face off without thinking too hard.

Aurora

16561656 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…

a supermarket horror story

16561656 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.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.2 - c.3

16561656 views00 comments00 favs

Ahead, she heard voices. She approached very slowly, as quiet as possible. She knelt behind a pair of shrubs and peeked through a small opening.

last light

16561656 views1212 comments99 favs

whisper to me

sunday morning lie-in

16561656 views22 comments22 favs

i'm staying down here

Not real words about a not real place

16561656 views11 comment00 favs

I'm going up and down elevators all over the Financial District and I have no office.

WANT A JEW TO FALL FOR YOU? TRY THESE FUNNY PICK-UP LINES.

16561656 views33 comments22 favs

KOSHER PORN is a new collection of funny pick-up lines just for Jews, written by humorist Sarah Rosen, and illustrated with photos by Tom Stokes. It's based on Rosen's popular dating blog, Porn4Jews. And it's hilarious. Rosen started her blog after a year and a…

Beelzebub

16561656 views55 comments55 favs

The jewels were dragonflies, buzzing lazily, Beelzebub’s hair a golden meadow.

Bloody Vodka

16561656 views99 comments66 favs

Broken glass attacks me

Down

16561656 views00 comments00 favs

Locked at the highest rung Unable to budge at all

A Bitter And Unseasoned Business Attorney Makes His Case That "Crazy Heart" Is The Perfectly Nasty Ending

16561656 views44 comments11 fav

In closing, Your Honor:After the interview Bad Blake, a/k/a "Otis" takes "Miss" Jane Craddock back to his hotel, ties her up, and gives her a Cleveland Steamer. For reference, please refer to my Brief, Exhibit A, showing a thespian named Ronald Jeremy…

Arcana Magi Wisp

16561656 views00 comments00 favs

Gon found himself slowing behind everyone. His wings slowly tired. The bird took a chance and pulled up. He could feel it behind him.

Human Spirit - a poem

16561656 views00 comments00 favs

It feels for an exit.

The Dream Shop

16551655 views55 comments55 favs

From nine at night until five in the morningthe mannequins staff the Dream Shop.Customers sleepwalk in and murmur their enquiries.Some of the patrons are very demanding.They queue outside before opening…

On being offered a seat on the Bart train

16551655 views88 comments55 favs

Remember when I entered a room and turned heads is my youthful charm a sputtering fire in the hearth

Quantized

16551655 views00 comments00 favs

“Wait, so you’re Burt Lancaster? You’re not tall enough to be Burt Lancaster.” I popped a hand over my mouth. Wine as truth serum would do me no favors.

Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and A Nice Hot Bath: What I Learned From Magazines This Week

16551655 views99 comments88 favs

Actress Rita Moreno wakes up humming.People (5/1/17)Riding a roller coaster with your partner makes you more attractive to each other. People (5/1/17)The image on the commemorative stamp the Central African Republic recently issued to honor film legend Marilyn Monroe…