Most read stories

A Jovial Saturday Sight

16551655 views2121 comments1212 favs

No twinkle- so, planet, not star./ And bright, so either Venus/ or Jupiter. I’m guessing, Jupiter.

A Few Good Band Names

16551655 views44 comments33 favs

Auto and the Grease-Pits Sugar Cube Full Frontal The Holy Grill Crazy Al and the Squirrels Talk Is Cheap Grilled Cheese Sandwich Cold Zippers Destiny Howl Epiphany Critter Cold Kneecaps Crepes Pulled Pork Baby Seals and the Club

The girl laughing in the dictionary.

16551655 views44 comments33 favs

Trigger Warning.

The Raging River

16551655 views44 comments44 favs

We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.

Man, Ending

16551655 views33 comments11 fav

The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.

Valentine

16551655 views44 comments11 fav

"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."

Shakedown Street

16551655 views33 comments22 favs

The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l

Bonfire

16551655 views44 comments11 fav

On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.

Early Tuesday Morning

16541654 views00 comments00 favs

The moon hung in the sky, round and pale, under cover of some wispy clouds.

Walking Coma / Resurrection Happens

16541654 views1313 comments1111 favs

It’s possible to forgive the past its trespasses / stop seeing the future as a threat, reimagine / the present as a goal.

when i take a hint, i take it really hard

16541654 views33 comments22 favs

it's the constant reminders of something that was never a constant remind her but i suppose there is no ticking clock on that which is wondrous and it was right right it's hard to come up with cleverly phrased universal truths and it's hard to make…

fish gut buckets

16541654 views22 comments00 favs

The pier stretched out by where sharks came and men waited with beautiful dirty buckets that held strange and dangerous things, buckets with fish guts, buckets with blood, with character, buckets like prophets or a gritty desert walking saviour like Chris

Goebbels in the Underworld with All His Pretty Ones

16541654 views1111 comments99 favs

The universe extracts no retribution./ It annihilates without a thought/ of evil/good, sin/virtue.

Gifts for Bonnie & Charlie

16541654 views55 comments22 favs

Jojo dolls & basketballs a mindflex & pick-up sticks Parcheesi and—no, not Parcheesi a supersoaker, a Care Bear

In Your Dreams

16541654 views1212 comments1010 favs

What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.

Did You Get Two

16541654 views44 comments33 favs

“106 more miles,” she said.

I Follow

16541654 views00 comments00 favs

Her shoes, left uninhibited below, seem sad but understanding, and she is so in love with something, which makes me so in love with the idea of her.

Noises

16541654 views55 comments33 favs

It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.

Asshole

16541654 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.

left handed

16541654 views55 comments33 favs

under your skin the moon is alive

House of Dreams

16541654 views66 comments44 favs

The cat wound itself around Megan’s neck, its purring curling through Megan’s consciousness. She was the cat and then herself, both things at once.

Sunflowers

16541654 views11 comment11 fav

On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.

Greet Death

16541654 views55 comments33 favs

where are you now?

The Four Despairs of Lumpy

16541654 views11 comment11 fav

children love to push the gas up and down my limbs

Making Love- Circa Y2K

16531653 views44 comments44 favs

I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...

The Taste in My Mouth

16531653 views88 comments11 fav

whose spit is this?

Thumb

16531653 views66 comments11 fav

I’m trying to get this said, this piece of fact. If I am a person who can own something, then that something that I own is not me, not me as a person. I do not own my foot, my foot is my own. It’s like a whatsit, a semantic distinction I’m trying to

A Skeptic’s Faith in Four Parts

16531653 views1515 comments1111 favs

The universe will fuck you over in the end./ That’s what it does, what it’s good at—

Whoami

16531653 views1616 comments1313 favs

A woman with fallen breasts is attempting to hang her laundry on a string. Two tall men mount horses and ride them into the meadow. A squad of children wrap themselves around a playground.

Inbox (1)

16531653 views22 comments33 favs

The email landed in his inbox.He'd been staring at the empty screen for a while now even though, really, he hadn't been expecting anything to arrive, yet there it was.He sat and stared, not daring to click it. He knew he shouldn't have sent a mail in the first place. He…