Most read stories

Elise Imagines Herself Behind Flowers: 1938

16641664 views66 comments55 favs

In your mouth is the attic studio Where your father’s brushes lie wet with water

from: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars

16641664 views66 comments55 favs

I got on the Greyhound Bus at 11 a.m. and sat by myself staring out the window. I could see the reflection of my own dark beard in the window, a 27 year-old man with a huge poem bursting my heart, gasping to get out into the bright lit-up world out there,

Let the Others Drool

16641664 views1616 comments1414 favs

They are all sleeping, but I know better. I will keep watch and if he comes tonight I will be alert and ready. When he arrives he'll see the slack mouths, the graceless sprawls, hear the grunts, snorts and snores of the other women and then he'll sense me. My eyes will…

One Day

16631663 views22 comments00 favs

I was ashamed of my conscience.

Blues Repeat

16631663 views99 comments44 favs

don't look at me honey, I fell on the table, my hair is on fire, my heart is unstable

Everything You've Got

16631663 views66 comments55 favs

I reach into my pocket for my keys and discover the cough drops Iput there a week ago have melted. Now my fingers are sticky. And I don’t have my keys.

Santa's stuck

16631663 views66 comments55 favs

Santa’s stuck/you say? In the chimney of course./The lard-arsed ol’bastard struggling

The mannequins

16631663 views44 comments44 favs

I try to enjoy my bookbut the mannequins keep tapping at the windowWhen I look up they vanish Outsidefibreglass clouds are kept in placeby invisible wires——Sometimes the mannequins …

What I'd Like to Say is That Something Special

16631663 views88 comments88 favs

that doesn't need any words to arrive fully formed, or too many words to be believed in at all I should say, a little something we can simply send back and forth across your time and my space without having to talk at length about it, but being a …

Snuggle

16631663 views1111 comments55 favs

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

Mosaic

16631663 views99 comments77 favs

MOSAIC Your eyes coal-rimmed, busted, burned by betrayal. You and I, knee to knuckle, skinny with disorders and blurred around our edges. Challenged by our experience and the ash of past-love dusting the grate, the state, the…

Eight-Legged Freaks

16631663 views55 comments22 favs

I’ve just moved to New York City and, somehow, Scarlett Johansson is at the same party I’m at.

The Stars in Illinois

16631663 views00 comments00 favs

Only early June, but the heat feels like August. Eleanor and Shelby sit on the front steps of the old Victorian-style house in downtown Los Angeles, drinking homemade margaritas and watching the daylight drain away to dusk. Shelby slaps a mosquito away fr

What I Did For Pho

16621662 views99 comments44 favs

Once upon a time there was a Vietnamese restaurant. And then there were two, and four, and eight...

We're Still Here

16621662 views44 comments55 favs

the beeps, rhythmic, tell us that you're still with us

Bloodsport

16621662 views11 comment00 favs

At last one of the men on the line bowed his head in a silent prayer for deliverance from what was about to come, then lifted his head and shouted loudly for his fellows to charge.

black tulips

16621662 views1212 comments55 favs

the memories return like they do every year at this time

Circus-thrust the Night Copier (ELECTRIC DELIRIUM 1.6)

16621662 views00 comments00 favs

Her fever spreads through lines of a plaid mini, over burnt milk, darkened to yellow. Fingers explore fabric folds up and into the lost dimensions of logic.

Donnie's end

16621662 views1212 comments88 favs

I pointed, trying to keep a rising frisson of alarm from my voice.

Geode

16621662 views77 comments44 favs

There is a rock somewhere with the truth of the sky in it, the glitter of otherworldly charms that falsify the ugliness of the literal.

Playtime

16621662 views33 comments22 favs

Her head was free from restraint...

Easy Rider

16621662 views66 comments55 favs

She stood there with her back to me and her dress around her ankles.

The Beach

16621662 views22 comments00 favs

The wind blows off the ocean soft and cool. I close my eyes in hopes to strengthen my sense of touch. A bit of sand wriggles through my teeth; crunchy and salty like spoiled oven-roasted peanuts. I imagine the air would smell like low tide if it wasn't constantly…

Date Night

16621662 views77 comments77 favs

Content may contain ordinary, everyday, and all around average happenings.

5 Narratives From The Field Museum (Naturally)

16621662 views99 comments33 favs

5 Narratives From The Field Museum (Naturally) 1. The American wife asked her French husband why it took him 50 words to ask which pass they would need. He said, “Because it does,” and they argued more, each in their own words. 2. The child…

Arcana Magi Fifth World - Part 1

16621662 views00 comments11 fav

As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.

The Best Banana Bread

16621662 views1515 comments1010 favs

xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxx xx x x x xx xxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Love Lost

16621662 views55 comments33 favs

She came to my house late that last night and shucked off her things and we slow-danced to Cruisin' as beaded rainwater slid off her black hair to the floor. She smiled an almost quizzical smile as she drank me there with her eyes, as if I was some…

My Name is William Hurt and I Am a Movie Star

16621662 views22 comments22 favs

Not to sound too ridiculous, but Hurt was giving me the hurt, and it felt good.

Dozen

16621662 views1212 comments77 favs

strung from her window to a tree