Most read stories

Migrants

12641264 views1515 comments88 favs

She is too stylish to be crazy, is what the migrant probably thinks. And he's right.

Not Drowning

12641264 views55 comments33 favs

You were a buoy.

Howie Mandel

12641264 views33 comments22 favs

We love the sparkling, speckless, spotless, spic-n-span, sanitary.

Driving Lesson

12641264 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

My 27th Great-Grandparents

12641264 views1515 comments1111 favs

Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…

Spaghettiad

12641264 views44 comments22 favs

In the mode of Swinburne's ‘Dolores':For the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster- A study of the notion of “Intelligent Design” Since the universe came into dawning, If e'er this bright universe did, Men ought to know better in…

Dirty Movies

12641264 views1111 comments88 favs

He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.

Valentine for a Homely Couple

12641264 views44 comments33 favs

It's none of my business, where Carl puts his prick. But I know one thing; Them Bohunk women go to pot quick.

Navigation and Perseverance

12641264 views44 comments44 favs

“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”

Absinthe

12641264 views33 comments33 favs

In a dazzle of emerald softness, it flew out into the breeze wanting for the red apple in the tree just outside my window. The power had gone out, spare change to total meltdown, and the air inside was stifling, thick with mind-numbing languor and mosquitoes. So I…

Hope's Amanuensis

12641264 views66 comments55 favs

I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.

Life Sized

12631263 views55 comments55 favs

The first time I saw Little Man was on a bright, hot afternoon near the end of November, when the trains had just pulled into the fair grounds and the familiar smell of upturned turf and sun-basked animals returned to Sarasota.

Lost In The City

12631263 views77 comments44 favs

They found it naught however as it was lost at metro stops, canceled appointments and in ever dimming light that failed to reflect what was instead of what could have been.

Failed Restaurants

12631263 views1616 comments88 favs

Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.

Let Us Meet In The Afternoon

12631263 views55 comments00 favs

You are Day I am Night Let us Meet In the Afternoon And…

The Shreds of Flame

12631263 views00 comments00 favs

For years I watched behind the glass While merry parties purpled past But now the world’s a Solemn Mass And I can only think.

My Favorite Breakfast

12631263 views00 comments22 favs

When Mavis is satisfied that her new man and I have met her criteria, and at long last she goes, no one will stand between me and the relentless boredom of my own company.

Badface Investigates - Being Naked

12631263 views11 comment00 favs

I'm completely naked in an unheated basement, about 40 first year university students, most of them female, are staring at my ridiculous waif-like body.

Mind Your Inspiration

12631263 views1111 comments99 favs

Be careful when you choose your muse, for she may be a siren.

I Don’t Think Her Last Name Was Tucker

12631263 views1010 comments99 favs

I ran into Tanya at “Pearl's” — maybe it was still called “Big Balls” — over in the Stockyards (Ft. Worth) in '72 and right up front we both admitted to loving honky-tonks and “done me wrong” songs which is why we were there…

A Beggar's Welcome

12631263 views44 comments55 favs

. . . it's all we ever want -- the holding.

Finite Automatons in Winter Quarter

12631263 views66 comments11 fav

To my right, blank stares interchange with closed eyelids on an unkempt face. The minutes drip into the endless sea of night outside the window, each time creating a deeper blackness.

D.X. (Flag Day Challenge)

12631263 views33 comments11 fav

Today is my birthday. Well, my assembly date, anyway.

left handed

12631263 views55 comments33 favs

under your skin the moon is alive

Vacation

12631263 views88 comments77 favs

I imagine you in the States, pushing stacks of work papers and our memories to the side, sense your enjoyment that you won’t see the worry of your behavior reflected in my eyes again. That you can buy and bang and be whomever you want,

Letter to a Lost Friend

12631263 views77 comments66 favs

I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."

Kissing Cobras

12631263 views00 comments00 favs

She administers the alkaloids slowly, soaking the muscles in blight, the body tissue beneath into corrosion.

Promises

12631263 views00 comments00 favs

THE LAST THING I WANTED, expected, or needed was to be standing in the doorway of Carly Ray's room, watching her clutch a picture of her father, my old friend Beryl, up to her face. She is so tiny, but at the same time there is something very adult about the way she looks.…

Arcana Magi - c.28: Our Hearts as One

12631263 views00 comments00 favs

Oryn knelt down beside Alysia and grabbed her white and light blue hair. She pulled it back, and tried to get an emotional response. Their eyes locked in place. Sparks of anger clashing between their faces.

Confessional

12631263 views33 comments11 fav

"On the podium at Pride, he owned that he'd loved taking his children to playgroup as he got to ogle all the breast-feeding mothers. "