Most read stories

Homeless

16081608 views44 comments00 favs

blueberry tea and vodka on a Friday night

Tick

16081608 views1010 comments33 favs

Palms planted firmly against his temples, Travis paced the room like a caged animal. Giant black bats screeched in his brain, their pointy wings scraping at the edges of his cranium.

My Back (Facebook) Pages*

16081608 views88 comments55 favs

It's all over now, Baby Blue...

Goebbels in the Underworld with All His Pretty Ones

16081608 views1111 comments99 favs

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

THE BOX

16081608 views11 comment11 fav

Passage

16081608 views00 comments00 favs

She didn't want to let go of the crumpled tissue she had been holding all this time, as it is wrong to litter, but she finally did, and felt free. Released. Bad. Naughty. Almost orgasmic.

My Latest Failure

16081608 views22 comments22 favs

Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.

Nothing Revolts

16081608 views00 comments00 favs

"Nothingness had had enough. Nothingness had become militant. It had bought a camouflage jacket. It grew an afro. It burned its bra. Nothingness was pissed, and it wanted its stuff back."

The Infinte Wheel

16081608 views99 comments66 favs

Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope way back in the Sixties. There are so many other earths out there that they are almost infinite. Now in our other lives we have to shuttle from planet to planet reading our poems. And

Streets of Gold

16081608 views1212 comments77 favs

I was beyond broke.

The Face in the Oatmeal

16081608 views55 comments44 favs

It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.

needs

16081608 views1010 comments55 favs

addict for validation and cat tongues

Our Own

16081608 views88 comments66 favs

The world is upon us. The only thing that matters Now is if you are willing to be seen by them. Many moths Will be hidden by simply gathering on the bark Of the one tree, but this will not sustain you if you Do not also have the courage…

Northeast of Eden (Memoir; Editor: Charlotte Curtis)

16071607 views22 comments22 favs

Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 40

16071607 views88 comments55 favs

—Mazel tov, schmazel tov!

My Church

16071607 views1212 comments66 favs

My ChurchThe white dressThe bridesmaidsThe friends, the familySadnessMy church knewno music

One More Silver Dollar

16071607 views44 comments22 favs

Culloden County, MS - 1989 All Janine knew was the idiot had a gun. As to why he would ever need one was beyond her. He couldn't look dumber holding it, either. He was too small for it, or at least he looked that way to…

A Scalar Boson a Day

16071607 views44 comments33 favs

. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.

Burger King Blues

16071607 views11 comment00 favs

Read signs sometimes and you just might get where you're trying to go. When Eddie suggested they stop for a Whopper, Dennis said no. "Fuck Burger King, man. Let's get that Wendy's up there." They got…

Off Island

16071607 views1010 comments66 favs

There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...

The World Explained

16071607 views55 comments44 favs

This is why the earth revolves around the sun: refrigerator magnets.

The Mix Tape

16071607 views55 comments00 favs

I made her a mix tape. It was revolutionary. Twenty-two songs she had to hear at least once in her life. I even drew some trippy drug-like designs on the label of the CD to make it seem more real. It was the ocean and the sun and every body of land balled up…

A Few Good Band Names

16071607 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

Singularities And the Circle Of Convergence

16071607 views55 comments11 fav

There was a knock at the front door of Apartment Number 9. Ace Quana tried to beat his wiener dog, Little Ace to the door, but he could not. For while Little Ace had stubby legs like wet…

Flamboozled in the Beak

16071607 views00 comments00 favs

I was looking for an inn to get a cup of calf soup before jacking ribs at the mutton joint. Feng calls, running numbers on an engine zone out in the valley.

Guinness for Iron

16071607 views1010 comments88 favs

My sister / craves raisons

Lotus-eaters

16071607 views11 comment11 fav

empty wine bottles, and a single abandoned boot

The Trapper Boy at Work, One Mile Underground

16071607 views88 comments44 favs

The coal carts come and go like the seasons, never stopping.

Cornelius van Linjpleel's Contributions to the Study of Etruscan Tombs

16061606 views55 comments44 favs

Cornelius van Linjpleel discovered and excavated for himself a lone Etruscan tomb not far from Populonia in 1898.

Thing To Do In Deptford When You're Dead.

16061606 views66 comments00 favs

Velvet answered the door in a red leather dress that was made with just about enough material to make a wallet, and looking like a long limbed drink of water calling out to a thirsty man.