Most read stories

Fertility

14611461 views1313 comments1212 favs

Today I'm feeling fertilized by an egg—

Monday

14611461 views00 comments00 favs

The door shuts slowly to something that’s allegedly mine and it sits there and waits until I come home just like you.

Getting to Work

14611461 views1010 comments22 favs

And I don't know how long it will be until she comes outside and figures it all out. Figures me out.

Lick the Empire (ELECTRIC DELIRIUM 1.3)

14611461 views00 comments00 favs

Can you see the rut? Can you dig your fingers into the flesh?

Saturday Morning

14601460 views1010 comments22 favs

Saturday morning, and I’m pushing the old truck a little, chasing retreating bands of cloud shadows along a winding hilltop road.

Never Trust A Thief

14601460 views66 comments55 favs

His looks were polished like his shoes, his hair as black. No one would have guessed he made his living as a thief.

Illustrated Comments on the Apophatapataphysical Metrics of Cosmic Humor

14601460 views88 comments44 favs

(the vast preponderance of dark matter and dark energy discernible in these latter days begins to suggest just how dark the humor of existence is) . . .

Unfinished Business

14601460 views77 comments55 favs

The receipts all fell into the black leather valise he’d retrieved from storage that afternoon, except for the forty-eight cents, which wound up in the right front pocket of his jeans.

The Concord of This Discord

14601460 views88 comments88 favs

-Love is a rushing of blood

shakey

14601460 views22 comments00 favs

You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.

Sometimes, an audience of one is enough

14601460 views1010 comments1010 favs

not of time, but of all the clocks/ that tick along toward the end/ of all the possibilities.

Impotent

14601460 views99 comments66 favs

I tell myself I should have known. You were always absence.

My Brain is a Pre-Historic Babe Magnet

14601460 views22 comments11 fav

Ug seemed kinda down in the dumps so, uncharacteristically for a male hominid, I asked him why he looked so glum. “Ug no find nice girl,” he said, poking a stick in the dirt.

Surveil

14601460 views44 comments33 favs

“I want you to know that you are being watched,” Ernie said. “I have trained a camera on your work station.”

Castor and Pollux

14601460 views00 comments00 favs

Over the stained fence the spectres flew and that is where the rain was turning colder and colder in the time when the trees had become mostly bare.

Hubbled

14601460 views2020 comments1111 favs

The nearsighted world/ puts on its lenses

Zorro

14601460 views11 comment11 fav

Zorro lived in his mother’s basement until he could get back on his feet.

What We Know but Can’t Describe

14601460 views2323 comments1212 favs

We know them just enough/ to recognize them when we find them.

Within You and Without You

14601460 views1818 comments88 favs

The cloudless sky/ amplifies the incompletion,/ clarifies the imperfections/ of the night’s normalcy-

Eight-Legged Freaks

14601460 views55 comments22 favs

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

Neapolitan

14591459 views77 comments44 favs

I wonder how many crumbs he can drop to make a cookie, whole, so I can relax a little and throw out the self help books about how I'm not right in the motherfucking head,

Walking on Water

14591459 views1010 comments88 favs

After his chemotherapy failed, he went water skiing.

We All Fall Down

14591459 views2121 comments55 favs

I didn’t give her enough skin. The world will always hurt her.

Friends

14591459 views33 comments22 favs

“Hi. I’m Rita Bates,” I had said. “Can I sit here? The boy who introduced himself as Thomas told me I could, so I did, and his friends all introduced themselves in turn. Around the table there was Bev, Ernest, someone whose name started with an F – maybe

The Dead Horse on CNN

14591459 views55 comments00 favs

The dead horse on CNN was floating there in the floodwater

Nearly Lost

14591459 views99 comments55 favs

My body feels chilly but it's not from the outside temps. It seems to me it's the opposite of a fever.

Cleveland Clinic

14591459 views22 comments11 fav

Allie didn't share that moment with Jim. That moment he spoke about whenever they made new friends as a couple— that moment he planned to recount at their engagement party.

maybe just a little too sensitive

14591459 views33 comments11 fav

"do you know what your problem is when it comes to girls?" she must mean other than the fact that they're all completely insane. or at least all the ones i've dated.

Asshole

14591459 views99 comments44 favs

This guy struts and never walks, and while doing so he reads and sends text messages and emails from his smart phone and so never walks in a straight line.

After: An All American, Post 9-11 Love Poem

14591459 views11 comment33 favs

After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…