Most read stories

Begonia {part five}

16461646 views22 comments00 favs

With a roar and short burst of flame, the dragon awoke, startled.

In Distress

16461646 views55 comments22 favs

When a multinational big box furniture store opened just off the expressway outside the city selling all the same products at greatly reduced prices, they contemplated the possibility of closing their store.

Bearing Witness

16461646 views1010 comments44 favs

I hold them to the light...

Sometimes, an audience of one is enough

16461646 views1010 comments1010 favs

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

Thick as Thieves (my new gang)

16461646 views00 comments00 favs

He reached into the bag on the table and pulled out a ten inch record, sleeved in brown paper, with a circle cut out to display the label information. He handled it delicately, like a fresh egg.

Making Time

16461646 views11 comment11 fav

Sleep left him like a fragmenting illusion. Suddenly, he was awake, like something pressing but fleeting had awoken him. Once awake, though, all he had was silence and stillness. His pulse quickened, his…

How It Went Bad With Horsepen

16461646 views1313 comments1010 favs

You should never have believed your daddy when he said a man with half a dog was better off than a man with no dog at all.

Tin Girl

16461646 views00 comments00 favs

Like some beautiful yet macabre puppet, she was suspended on strings of wire, painstakingly threaded tubing flowing into her cavities, through her chambers, around her mechanics.

Hara-kiri

16461646 views44 comments44 favs

unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

Your Last Rooster

16461646 views1616 comments88 favs

But his muscles fluttered and off he flew leaving the stink of barnyard on the sheets.

Prayer

16461646 views66 comments55 favs

Prayer

This Can't Be Blank

16461646 views77 comments99 favs

I don't know where to start. We're gaining flight. Did you seeanybody we know? The trees are always a concern. I don't thinkI know how to stop this thing from crashing into parked cars,that is if we live. You can say it was all on a stupid dare. They don't have to know…

Hey Old Lady! Want To Buy A Reverse Mortgage?

16451645 views55 comments44 favs

Facebook just hit me with an ad for coping with memory loss, probably because I just turned 63. As far as my favorite social media site is concerned, I am now an Old Lady. When I asked my Facebook pals who are also Seniors what kind of promotions have been turning up…

The Faraday Effect

16451645 views55 comments11 fav

Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor...

Windows

16451645 views00 comments00 favs

The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.

TOP TEN LIST

16451645 views66 comments22 favs

It was only two days before Christmas.  Jonathan remembered his mother crying.

Only Temporary

16451645 views11 comment00 favs

It was the middle of May when I found out my teacher was screwing my mother.

Too Early, Too Late

16451645 views77 comments11 fav

Things don't always go to plan. Gem knew what people would have said back then, of course. She wasn't stupid.

The White Dogs Of West Emerald Street

16451645 views77 comments77 favs

I wondered if Mr. Slane even knew/ how many dogs he owned

1958-1961

16451645 views1414 comments1010 favs

In those years, you and I were told to leap for a world suffused with sound and industry.

Building Furniture Houses

16451645 views33 comments11 fav

“Let me in,” I begged. “No. Get back stinky feet.” “I washed them.”

Grace

16451645 views99 comments55 favs

The instant you remember gratitude with enough focus to spring free its power...

Forbidden Fruit

16451645 views1212 comments1111 favs

After my vasectomy, I got a T-shirt with a picture of an orange on it. It said "All Juice, No Seeds."

Fealty

16451645 views1010 comments77 favs

I wander toward the midnight dock a neon sine curve stabs my eyes

Sixty words or less

16441644 views44 comments00 favs

She wakes up sad. She can't shit. She spreads out the foil. no creases. folds it in half. She puts the stuff in the crease. holds a lighter under it. A zippo. then smokes it. Well smokes the smoke. It's like kissing god or the…

Dancing on the Rhythm Bus–One Night after Leaving The Pyramid Club, 1991

16441644 views1010 comments44 favs

The next day I can’t recall at all, a waste, like the flash of twenty years of my life, faces that pass you like comets in some erogenous unnamed zone of night, but they got me in some isolation room with my wrists in leather restraints.

fake letters in reply

16441644 views77 comments33 favs

I did do one nice thing for you

The Stranger I : Vic's

16441644 views22 comments00 favs

The location : Vic's Seedy Space Bar. No, that's not just a description, that's the real name.

Assiduity Three

16441644 views66 comments44 favs

Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.

Love Me Like It's Midnight

16441644 views1010 comments77 favs

We are young That’s all we’ve got We take drugs We smoke pot You got mugged And I got shot We are young That’s all we’ve got I want you to love me like it’s midnight Midnight, midnight Yeah, your mama wants you home But she knows