Most read stories

a can of emotional worms

15611561 views00 comments11 fav

Is any person is worthy of the kind of ache?

Luce

15611561 views22 comments11 fav

Lucy shrugs into the corner of the train's seat. She envelopes her IPod in both hands as if she's praying or holding a conch shell: safe, secure like when she visited a Morcombe beach in the school holidays. The only giveaway's the white headphone cord.

Intermission

15611561 views77 comments77 favs

It’s so uncomfortable being an Angel in a sack

Strangeness

15611561 views66 comments22 favs

The goose on the roof isn’t aware it is doing anything odd...

After Prometheus

15611561 views1111 comments66 favs

His method is simple...

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 15

15611561 views55 comments33 favs

—Jesus, a snoring cat. No wonder Alex put this cat outside.

Thumb

15601560 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

Today the Smell of Worms and Wet Pennies

15601560 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.

Sarah the Witch

15601560 views22 comments22 favs

Secretly she suspected she was really a witch. She didn't have green skin or scraggly black hair, and certainly no flying monkeys. Maybe those came over time, the more bad things you did, the more ugly you became until all the world could see how horrible

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.4

15601560 views00 comments00 favs

Everyone kept up with Nemo until the scent led them to the edge of the city. The elders sniffed the ground and found Satoshi’s scent into the stoned woods.

Couplets Regarding an Impasse

15601560 views55 comments55 favs

Life is easier for the handsome. / They are more pleasant to deal with.

Tongue / Giddy

15601560 views1515 comments44 favs

A delicate thrill buzzed my face.

Same Trailer, Different Park

15601560 views77 comments77 favs

Suddenly everything is delaminating People are popping right off the surface of humanity I am coming loose from my previous lives

Winter in Waveland

15601560 views55 comments22 favs

They build them high they do in Waveland, Mississippi.The tall houses with their skinny thighs spread wide flirting with the dusky coast, like antebellum ladies petticoats lifted, stockings wetted, ankles bared, savingtheir hems from the unpredictable tide,…

Self Inventory

15601560 views2323 comments1414 favs

Life, like a kite string, is slipping out of your hands

Unknown Brothers

15601560 views00 comments00 favs

His name is Rick Reynolds. His name is Steve Redford.

A Shot at Pool

15601560 views99 comments66 favs

New waitress/bartender draws my attention to bare ankles and red hair

astral ages

15601560 views1818 comments1111 favs

Life in astral circles

Corrections & Clarifications

15601560 views1515 comments22 favs

It was Fredrick Miller, not his murdered son Matthew, who was executed Monday night at Henshaw Prison. (the system won't take anything under 200 characters, so this part is just to take up space. please ignore)

DNA

15601560 views1717 comments1010 favs

my family's Scottish heritage

Love Cycle – a serial

15601560 views88 comments66 favs

1. How can one begrudge the cracking open of a heart?When the lava love fire loaded insanity of self-control disappearsAnd the raw spewing beginsYou better be ready for the truthIt ain't gonna be prettyYou'll wish you were deadYou won't recognize where you areYou'll be…

Serving Up Apathy

15591559 views11 comment00 favs

"Did you want that with the shrimp or the chicken?" the waitress asked. "Uh, shrimp is fine" the old man replied. "I'll be right back with some more bread" the waitress plasters a fake smile on as she walks away. 'What the hell am I doing. I've got a BS i

Everything the Traffic Will Allow

15591559 views88 comments77 favs

there’s more to life than poontang but not when you’re sixteen and your hands are full of heavy breasts

The Lookout

15591559 views44 comments00 favs

I had never seen anyone die. For first time in my life, I was afraid, even more than when my step-dad got drunk and roughed me up. When Dale Franklin got shot last year standing on the corner outside the laundry-mat it took the ambulance forty-five minu

Sweet Tooth

15591559 views33 comments11 fav

There was a hole in my tooth. It wouldn't let anything go.

On Not Having an Affair With a Flamboyant Minor Dadaist Poetess

15591559 views88 comments44 favs

It’s just that—well, I don’t know how to put this— With a Dadaist poet a non-affair is the height of erotic bliss.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.5 - c.5

15591559 views00 comments00 favs

Getting answers felt like it was not enough. Madam Mayweather wanted more. She wanted to hurt someone.

Whirl

15591559 views1212 comments1111 favs

Wanna,wanna, whoop de loop. Hold my baby, kiss my mom, dance the way I used to do. Desktops, blacktops, cut and paste, speed down hills, learn the rules, Sister Saint Marion, married to Christ. Sixteen, life-green, pink tights, Swan Lake, an…

Hungry

15591559 views1111 comments1111 favs

Why do people kill themselves with food? It’s obvious, I suppose. They’re hungry.

All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams

15591559 views11 comment00 favs

1. Lamia I slapped the venomous dream from his mouth before he could spit in my eyes; fuck him and his rage, fucking Tonton Macoute or whatever he was--and I got the hell out and away from that house and the fires that raged on all floors, and I fled…