Most read stories

How To Build A Drunken Sandwich

15161516 views44 comments44 favs

Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.

Down

15161516 views00 comments00 favs

Locked at the highest rung Unable to budge at all

Your Guide to Wi-Fi Security

15161516 views99 comments22 favs

Public Wi-Fi ”hotspots” allow men and women to ogle each other discreetly while pretending to write the Great American Novel.

Cigarette Molehill

15161516 views00 comments00 favs

He noticed a freckle on the forth toe of her left foot. Her wedding toe. A direct result of one frenzied crowd of melanocytes in the dermis, adjacent to the epidermodermal junction. The fruit of a very subtle orgy.

Shades

15161516 views66 comments55 favs

It was the sodabottle glasses that scared Entro the most. Stubbled with scratches, taped with residual angst and piercing his soul with contempt he’d seen only on the National Geographic Focus Antarctica series - as Seals readied to mangle for Alpha bragg

Gothic Clockwork Apparatus Man

15151515 views22 comments22 favs

an awkward stage between glued popsicle stick marsupial, and mechanical tin foil mammal.

Roses

15151515 views88 comments66 favs

Your laugh used to startle the nurses.

1957: Kathleen Eulalie, Widow

15151515 views1010 comments1010 favs

My lipline's retreated since Tuesday. I'll toss those Hazel Bishop reds, (lipstick on shriveled lips rattles men, scares little children) skip Woolworth's cosmetics counter, save backaching, ankleswelling pondering of powders, rouges, …

SNOW ANGEL

15151515 views1010 comments44 favs

I do this when I think of you. Today we took the first steps towards you're never here.

Detienen a 271 conductores en un Stop.

15151515 views11 comment11 fav

Un consejo esconde un futuro desastre. Es como si Mar le dijese a Desierto "amigo...impresionante. Dejate elevar por la atracción de Luna y verás". Y Desierto le replicase "está bien, y tú Mar, deja que Viento lleve tus olas hasta el nacimiento de los ríos, es brutal". …

Snuggle

15151515 views1111 comments55 favs

“I’m tired, Art” The Virgin said. She was already curled up beside their dog, Lance.

Kimchi Hatchet

15151515 views1313 comments1010 favs

“You’re not Jesus"

Radioactive Rain

15141514 views77 comments66 favs

It’s an almost mystical experience, walking in the warm, radioactive rain. It’s a rare moment of peace, a gathering of breath before the next storm, before the next wave of panic, before those frozen in shock come to themselves and rush through the stree

Pull Another String

15141514 views55 comments55 favs

Now as my fearful hand goes unwittingly up I search the faraway trees for the closest possible answer I know I don't know. The clever waiting beast is looking my way with an intelligent roving eye that says he likes to hit. It doesn't matter. You're worse…

Bash

15141514 views66 comments44 favs

Luke was in the gutter, his face in stagnant water littered with cigarette butts, condom wrappers, and green shards of glass from broken beer bottles. A man was kicking him in the face with a boot the size of a U-boat, over and over and over again. Blood

As Many Will Fall

15141514 views88 comments77 favs

tumbling for you from afar as close-up. They will rewrite your dancing form like a proper magical spell on all their maddest days, using the branches of cherished trees dipped into the trapped wells of certain hosts of …

So Few Dreams

15141514 views66 comments55 favs

So few dreams are the doors they seem.

Balloon Seller

15141514 views1414 comments88 favs

...painted by my mother with meticulous attention...

Water Break

15141514 views1111 comments99 favs

Whenever you act as if you're one of themit makes perfectly sad sense tome; you are one of them; we're supposed to believe there areno shadows in that particular choice? When you areone of them, they say youfall asleep with a peaceful droopinglip to your smile. When…

The People Who Won't Get Back to Me

15141514 views99 comments11 fav

Literary agents, also editors, But most assuredly not my creditors, Someday they won’t mean jack to me— The people who won’t get back to me.

Driving Lesson

15141514 views66 comments77 favs

Just take the mountain curves as tightly to the inside and as fast as surface conditions permit and the road’s edge

Half Staff

15141514 views1313 comments99 favs

We mourn/ in perpetuity and are inured

Mississippi

15141514 views88 comments88 favs

“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…

Looking for Eight

15131513 views22 comments22 favs

She knew there were a few rodeos in south Texas scheduled in the next two weeks. Mostly small-time stuff, but riders who hadn't had much luck might be inclined to improve their scores for the pro circuit. She guessed Lorenzo wasn't having much luck.

Our Merchant-Ivory Weekend

15131513 views00 comments00 favs

“A shibboleth is a test—a way to separate da wheat from da chaff that's as old as the Bible, but as new as the latest trend in men's fashions,” Gus says.

Blizzard on 105th Street

15131513 views1919 comments1616 favs

severe snow storm coming. I'm looking for a parking spot and listening to Machito & Charlie Parker

Why I Write

15131513 views99 comments44 favs

Creep up behind me one day and prick my skin. I promise you won’t draw blood – for it is ink that will spurt from my veins.

The Opposite of Remember is Demember

15131513 views22 comments00 favs

No matter how you do it, forgetting something doesn’t mean as much once you’ve forgotten.

Prisoners (edited)

15131513 views1515 comments44 favs

This cell the sole certainty, all else steeped in mystery. Why should we be here?

Milo

15131513 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.