Most read stories

CURTAINS

15411541 views22 comments11 fav

She also castrated her cat. All by herself...with her Swiss Army Knife. And not with the blade either.

At Least There Will Be Plenty Implied

15411541 views44 comments22 favs

Accidental suicide, though. Why, that could happen to anyone.

The Blocked Toxin

15411541 views88 comments22 favs

Listen to chickadees. Join / LinkedIn.

Sunny Side

15411541 views44 comments44 favs

I was so used to the silence of late summer afternoons, when I could roll my hoop through the empty, sunlit piazzas without meeting another shadow, that at first I mistook the footsteps for the beat of a metronome spilling through an open window.

Wallflower

15411541 views44 comments44 favs

It was one of those weekday mornings in early spring when Marjorie and I could wander from chapel to chapter house with only security guards for company.

Span

15411541 views1212 comments88 favs

That’s a long time/ to live with the certainty/ of your death

Monday

15411541 views88 comments88 favs

Always in a hurry/to spoil your/weekend

Two More Pennies Towards the Proper Procedure of the Pudding, If You Please

15411541 views88 comments77 favs

I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…

The Secret of Healers and Monsters

15411541 views22 comments11 fav

If there was a single constant in the boy’s life, it was that he had always thrown knives. In his youth he had thrown them only in his mind . . .

Hammered then hungover

15401540 views00 comments00 favs

When she got back to Claire's, she was hammered and she had no idea what time it was, what day, or, frankly, what planet. It was the first time she'd been that drunk in years. The last time she could remember getting even close to that wasted was at a Christmas party right…

Erasure

15401540 views1111 comments99 favs

All else is unmoved/ and relentless in its indifference.

Trade-Offs

15401540 views11 comment00 favs

Smiling, holding hands, Joe and Lara basked in the sunshine of the mid January day as they approached the diner. The temperature was warm enough for golf. Joe had played in far colder weather in spring and fall.

A Life of My Own - 5

15401540 views33 comments11 fav

angels give them names of important people, people under the control of evil demons whose influence must be negated at all cost if humanity is to survive into the future and achieve its ultimate potential.

The Sharps

15401540 views1212 comments99 favs

How could a leaf be an accident?

Secrets; Opening to "Woolgathering"

15401540 views33 comments00 favs

Some of us, however, turn our secrets over in our souls, churning them with the fury of the howling winds of a January night. They are eroded and shaped and fine-tuned with the precision of a jeweler; the deeper and darker they are, the more brilliant of

Three Point Back (from epiphanyzine.com)

15401540 views11 comment11 fav

“...you should have something moving around here.” Tracey looked around, then said, “Paul, you should get a cat.”

The Mayor

15401540 views22 comments22 favs

The streets downtown belong to the people. The people wanted greater transparency. They wanted Mayor Abok to be straight and narrow with them. They wanted their streets to be level and safe to drive their vehicles on. They wanted their streets to be usefu

Trajectory

15401540 views22 comments11 fav

Soon the world is on film that is burning.

//i look beneath your skin:

15401540 views66 comments44 favs

x ≥ ponds rise beyond where you & i have stood

Rock, Roll, et al.

15401540 views1010 comments55 favs

She looks for the obit, can't find. Over and over, looks. Nothing. Nothing except something touching her shoulder. Follow me. Corridors, doors, along and along, no time to notice that this last is the stage door — she was so suddenly there in the blare and…

BOXES

15401540 views33 comments22 favs

Lama’s mother is dead. She died when Lama was just outgrowing her ballet tutus. When Lama talks about it, it is with the air of one who picks honeysuckle over jasmine. It gives sunshine, she says, to graves. Our epitaphs are so mechanical otherwise. Un

Laughing at Ants

15401540 views55 comments44 favs

It IS good, right?

#5

15401540 views55 comments22 favs

and the other guy goes

Horace

15401540 views22 comments22 favs

The young boy sat on the swing, hearing sirens in the distance. The tops of his shoes were dirty. His fingers as well, where he drew stick figures of people in the dirt. His…

Shit May Come And Shit May Go, But A Good Tarpaulin Can Last Forever

15401540 views00 comments00 favs

It happens. Someone blows something off, someone else forgives it, then tat for tit and verse visa, and you’re missing someone’s wedding because you thought it was Thursday and they didn’t mention it to you anywy, but you’re still BFF and don’t

It Started When My Cheek Absorbed A Mean Left Hook

15401540 views44 comments11 fav

Describe my origami, the shape of a gun or a limp dick, or maybe a flower.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 25

15401540 views66 comments44 favs

It was 6 a.m. when the phone next to the bed awakened Francesco.

EAGLE

15401540 views11 comment00 favs

It was an eagle in the waves Those eyes make no mistake Especially from a mile high Blue fish and tuna Too dumb to run

Red and Lavendar Silk

15401540 views55 comments44 favs

Swatches of Chinese silk in vivid red and lavender fly through the air. My granddaughter in her mid-thirties reaches for the cloth. I see in her mirror a shape forming; a slim, gray haired woman with a spring in her step. I pause to admire my reflection and pass over the…

Questions of Ownership

15401540 views1212 comments99 favs

Who owns the moon? What title search/ could ever make a claim?