Most read stories

Knees of the Dragon

13901390 views11 comment11 fav

I never could run properly. It’s kinda hard when you’ve got scales all over your body and a big fat tail that gets in the way.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.9

13901390 views00 comments00 favs

Emi watched the Perez sisters show each other support. It brought back memories of Mayumi giving her support, even fighting for her.

31 & 32

13901390 views55 comments44 favs

Many hours to make a brick: many bricks to make a curve.

Harvest

13901390 views88 comments44 favs

When the hay was ripe it stirred and rippled like water.

Summer, 1995.

13901390 views77 comments55 favs

I am no different to her, living seven days ahead of myself, looking forward to looking back, as we Irish do so fondly

Hard-to-Reach Places

13901390 views1212 comments00 favs

Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.

Forbidden Fruit

13901390 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."

The 5 Senses of the Apocalypse

13901390 views44 comments33 favs

The Rapture comes and goes unannounced in carbonated soda bubbles spicing the air.

Prayer to Ray Bradbury

13901390 views55 comments33 favs

Dear Ray Bradbury, yesterday was my thirteenth birthday, and I could not stop thinking of the Mennonite girl in the milkwhite bonnet, the squint of her eye, the twitch of her anxious finger on the trigger, sudden holes bloomi

Camp Lake (excerpt)

13891389 views33 comments22 favs

In retrospect, we should have been a cult.

The Stranger I : Vic's

13891389 views22 comments00 favs

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

The seduction

13891389 views00 comments00 favs

1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…

Barnyard 1961

13891389 views66 comments55 favs

The boy heard loud barks and squeals, climbed on a chair, and looked out the window at the barnyard and the faded blood red barn.

Bodies Approaching Rest

13891389 views1414 comments66 favs

He hates this body no less now/ than he did at 14 for its pudginess/ and the hair that can’t conform

Clear Cut

13891389 views55 comments44 favs

John held up his pistol and racked the slide to chamber a round. He told me that he knew a few things. He knew I'd knocked up Nikki. His girl. He knew I'd taken Nikki to the free clinic in Gresham. He knew I wasn't…

Carly Simon's Ex

13891389 views66 comments00 favs

You're so insecure; you probably think this story is about you.Well, you would be right.

36,227 Views

13891389 views44 comments22 favs

eleven seconds of infamy / brought to you by Glenfidditch /who the hell filmed this?

I Was a Cat Once

13891389 views33 comments00 favs

This is a 50-word story.

Ballspenden

13891389 views00 comments00 favs

Even if you're doing it together, there's no unity when everyone's dancing to their own tune.

Help From The Sunrise

13891389 views88 comments55 favs

Ellen arrived on the beach when it was still too dark to see the ground; the fine shells and small, sharp rocks hurt her feet, but she went ahead until her toes felt the edge…

Four Quarters for a Dollar Moon

13881388 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.

Today the Smell of Worms and Wet Pennies

13881388 views00 comments00 favs

Martin Heidegger wore hearing protection out on the tarmac at JFK. The runways were broad and he danced and leapt with the freedom of a Cats performer while he guided planes to the terminal.

Osama, Osama--He's After Your Mama!

13881388 views00 comments00 favs

Captain Zeep came to Earth at last century's end to help pave the way for a Zorkian takeover by 2012 at the latest. Key to the game plan: Earthlings had to get dumber than eggplants. When George Bush stole the White House, Zeep figured, Bingo, dumb…

Honeybee

13881388 views22 comments11 fav

Forgetting her inhibitions, she dove for him.

~switches and shade~

13881388 views00 comments00 favs

  mis-placed       the change           she goes looking for.        her folks        missed another hour...          her worth-while spent wasting        the voice wouldn’t leave the leaves alone.

Arcana Magi Fifth World - Part 1

13881388 views00 comments11 fav

As the four flew beside each other, they shared their stories and got to know one another. Soon they learned from the voice what was happening.

The City of Lights

13881388 views1111 comments1010 favs

Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Present Tense

13881388 views88 comments55 favs

What fascinates me now is now, this instant, this moment. This fugitive, this delinquent, this indiscreet, this forever elusive now. Now now. Now is now and now it is not now. Now is the adversary of time.…

His Nightmares

13881388 views44 comments11 fav

Motionless seconds turned

magnets

13881388 views1111 comments77 favs

... his skin glistened like a sharp blade