Most read stories

Four Quarters for a Dollar Moon

16491649 views22 comments22 favs

There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.

End of the World

16491649 views99 comments55 favs

The world doesn'tend just becauseyou want it to.Bonus poems:The Poet(Series 1)by Darryl PricePoet in a TreeYeah, well, it's not up here either. Although the everything and nothing view is nice. Only because it doesn't have any abandoned cars in it. I'm…

yapping and laughing and living

16491649 views33 comments33 favs

I can't take it bird by bird because I have neither.

Lost In The City

16491649 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.

Assiduity Three

16491649 views66 comments44 favs

Everybody needs a flaw or two. It builds character.

Fugue No. 4

16491649 views22 comments00 favs

I am learning to write.

Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at Ten Thousand Feet)

16491649 views22 comments00 favs

The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.

The colour! The power! The vision!

16491649 views00 comments00 favs

... and photos of friends from former lives: the Wolfman; Drac; the Mummy; my ungrateful Son; even my gold-digging, coat-tailer ex-wife.

OF ALL 2,000 YEARS

16481648 views66 comments44 favs

OF ALL 2,000 YEARS 10 Point The city after the snow was Medieval, the thousand paths wound as browsing deer. Inside her coat what wild heart. Lethe The beads were rolled-river at her throat, milk blue on a yellow string. I…

Souvenirs

16481648 views22 comments22 favs

It is a hot August night — the same kind you remember from that summer after high school graduation. A cool breeze blows in off the ocean, sweeping across the boardwalk just hard enough to dry the …

Bethlehem

16481648 views66 comments55 favs

I dragged you that last half mile Me such a slip of a thing, one bite mark visible You the bear, your growl now only audible When you furred from kerb to road to kerb The December snow followed us Dragging Christmas red behind you As I ignored my…

Too Early, Too Late

16481648 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.

Boys

16481648 views33 comments11 fav

He came to a spot on the edge of the strawberry fields where he liked to sit with his brother and watch the turkey buzzards circle overhead

Candle Illumination

16481648 views00 comments00 favs

Mint upon my palate, I rub sleep infused eyes and crawl under the covers. Oh blessed sleep, please descend upon this body and transverse this fatigue. Eyes closed, bring a wavering blackness upon subtle lids. The conversation begins…

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is Trying to Say Something to His Mother

16481648 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.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 3

16481648 views22 comments11 fav

Now you are a raving bare-forked fool madman with nothing.

Chipping Granite

16481648 views55 comments33 favs

I sat at the kitchen counter, aware of a heaviness, a numbness, in my flesh, my bones, my mind. My dancer's body -- short, trim and 108 pounds -- felt as huge and unmoving as the…

Shim

16481648 views22 comments22 favs

better than being dead

Manifesto

16481648 views88 comments55 favs

I write poems.

Moon Backstory

16471647 views88 comments55 favs

Today clouds were dancing on the moon Moon had a fit but drew in a breath And let out a sigh

Last Call

16471647 views11 comment11 fav

It’s last call for the Class of 2001, their five-year reunion drawing to a close, and Brenner, in his standard t-shirt and holey jeans, has just arrived.

How dare you?

16471647 views11 comment00 favs

She took a deep breath. Last night, she said, Who was the woman?

The Rug

16471647 views88 comments22 favs

Marge bought the rug on-line.

Accidental Discoveries

16471647 views33 comments33 favs

They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element

Toad On Fire

16471647 views55 comments22 favs

“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”

Honoring Heritage

16471647 views1010 comments55 favs

salmon sits gentler on my palate

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.5

16471647 views00 comments00 favs

Takashi and Hideki stared at the pool of grey Mana. A scientist carefully contained some of the mist into a container.

The Way Home

16471647 views44 comments33 favs

Her back turned, she wanders off searching for the way home wringing her hands, trying to think, but thoughts evade her.

ace in the hole

16471647 views1010 comments88 favs

hookers are better educated these days

Jouissance

16471647 views1111 comments77 favs

BECAUSE to fuck is an incidental REASON to be here