Most read stories

Impetuous Daffodils

16121612 views77 comments55 favs

...the daffodils will fling/ their yellow petals, taunting winter

Satellite Dish (from The New Yorker)

16121612 views22 comments22 favs

Just as one thing I say is “Don’t worry about me,” one thing I think is that you love somebody by living with them...

The Replica City

16121612 views22 comments00 favs

From somewhere beneath the train, steam rose, which was—of course—puzzling as the train was powered by electricity. The steam condensed on the windows of the cars, making tears streak across the surface. Perhaps that was why the woman’s cheeks were shinin

$5 K a Day

16121612 views77 comments44 favs

We are all in big trouble. Here's some fiction to let your soul experience the beast.

This is Not the Great Depression!

16121612 views66 comments55 favs

Going to the candy store at night in the section of town called Kalliope. Riding bike, trying to get there before it closed at ten. Getting candy at that little store with the glass containers and the rows and rows of candy. Getting milk there…

Martini

16111611 views1414 comments66 favs

She drinks a chocolate martini. I fold myself up and slide into her pocket.

Conviction

16111611 views55 comments33 favs

“You’ve put all my anorexic friends on the table nearest the buffet,” I say. “And all my bulimic friends on the other side of the room away from the buffet and the toilets.”

yet mo bands

16111611 views1010 comments99 favs

Doofus National Puppet Radio Total Bogascity Sex Cowards Mein Kampfire Boner Hyperventilate Sewer Video Rats Psychic Umbrella Fire Your Psychic! Tender Brisket Megatrouser Puzzlement University Housecoats Fuchsia Big Ass Dawn

Arcana Magi Fifth World - Part 1

16111611 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.

Ajloun Castle

16111611 views1414 comments99 favs

the wind mistook your arms for wings

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is Trying to Say Something to His Mother

16111611 views44 comments33 favs

The songs that she used to sing to him still dance in his head while he wrangles equations. The stars in the cosmos spell out her name.

What Happens In A Bed

16111611 views1010 comments66 favs

Eight days before her 50th birthday they were married in their soft new pajamas, holding hands on his bed in the hospital. The pastor and witnesses wore protective hospital gowns and gloves; the patient was in isolation once again. A special dispensation from the head…

Kanha's Dream

16111611 views00 comments00 favs

"Look at the grime on those curtains. Not fit for an Emperor. Pull them down. Put up fresh new ones. Not a spot." "Oh! Look at this throne. All uneven legs. The gems are not shining. The gold looks dull. Fix it, fix it, fix it!"

Unwritten

16111611 views00 comments00 favs

You’re never really asleep. I am never awake. But as the darkness fades, I read. Your body tells my story.

Family

16111611 views99 comments1010 favs

For instance, my sister's husband. If I say brown socks, yellow boxer shorts, fishnet undershirt. If I say plastic bag and two tepid beers. And a voice that glides to falsetto when he: you're a tad too obscene for my taste, Julia, while he tries to light the filter end of…

Misplaced Emotions

16111611 views77 comments77 favs

I spent most of those days in my car. Stashed in the trunk was a cache of precious stones, neatly sorted and separated, bound in smooth black velvet inside a smooth black briefcase.

R.I.P.

16101610 views33 comments33 favs

Her funeral was scheduled for the following Monday, and of course Claudia would attend. Trouble was, Monday was a workday for my parents. So when neither Mother nor Claudia could find somebody else on short notice to keep me, it was decided that I would a

Helen of the Poetry World

16101610 views11 comment00 favs

That night we went out to shoot some pool at the pool hall over on Durant Avenue, which was above a bar called Kip’s. Rotten Bobby walked in with his own damn pool cue, which came broken down in two pieces. He carried it in a narrow felt-lined carrying

Blood

16101610 views44 comments33 favs

We decide not to go to the emergency room

You Don’t Know Jack.

16101610 views1515 comments88 favs

Susan said since her divorce three years ago there have been too many Jacks in her life. Seven, if she counted that older guy. She knew that now. Too many. It was the name and little else that drew her to men. She told me the name alone was like Pavlov's bell. It…

The Robotic Intelligence Test

16101610 views11 comment00 favs

In the last test Anna barely managed to stay within the limit, but right now she had problems with her father in law who’s been luring her husband into alcohol, and with her husband who’s been luring the father in law into drugs.

Safe

16101610 views1010 comments1111 favs

She left knives and hot pots with handles akimbo. Like a guardian angel, he turned them in. Like an ungrateful Eve, she turned them back out.

Broadcast From Earth Deli

16101610 views11 comment22 favs

I have no confidence that you'll complete the task. Shit, you probably don't even understand it in the slightest.

Application for Position as Failure

16101610 views99 comments22 favs

Dear Sir/ Madam I wish to apply for the position you advertised in the Daily Sun. Although my expertise is in self-obliteration and self-worth (or lack of), and my work mainly in disappointment, I do have much experience in failure, which this letter will…

Kitty Cat

16101610 views99 comments77 favs

Even word dancers need rest.

The Artist

16101610 views22 comments11 fav

The story itself is not much longer than a snippet. What is a snippet anyway?

Time Travel Telephone

16101610 views22 comments00 favs

And now, the weather. The Cloud Wranglers have roped three solid clouds this morning, preventing the clouds from raining iron bars onto Human Brain Storage Center #17.

How I Lost 1 lb Per Day

16101610 views33 comments11 fav

Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.

Static

16101610 views1111 comments66 favs

The days cut off by damp chill with every thought a different variety of protection.

Funhouse

16101610 views99 comments88 favs

beatings and tear gas