Most read stories

No Good Hubcaps - song

15091509 views55 comments44 favs

I got no good hubcaps My van is up on bricks It's held together with duct tape And a couple of crummy sticks I caught the guy who did this And tied him to a tree I kicked him in the windpipe And kicked him in the knee I'm a man witho

The Listener

15091509 views22 comments00 favs

They think because you are a writer you are not much of a listener and so you begin to recognize all of the great opportunities to be much more of a listener and then you shut your trap and get sucked into the whorls of her big wet brown eyes with Italianate…

Style Shifts

15091509 views55 comments55 favs

Style Shifts “Oh, yes, my cousin. We were rude boys until the armed gangs started to gather. Used to be we could pass a night driving, playing our songs, acting tough. Yeah. We'd mouth off, flash some teeth, spark some anger when we felt like it. We…

Glossolalia

15091509 views55 comments22 favs

Method of divination. Open a book to any section. Drop your hand onto the page. Read that there is an exorcism happening in the other room.

Myself Today

15091509 views22 comments22 favs

Suddenly I'm not feeling it anymore. / Poetry has become insufficient. / I can't do it like I used to.

Napomo 17: April 25 - 30

15091509 views1111 comments55 favs

As air warms and warm/ winds stir, green becomes the force/ that surges the plains.

MOTHER MOUSE AND HER BRATS

15091509 views00 comments00 favs

Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?

Mommy

15091509 views77 comments55 favs

I miss her.

To Cancer, with love...

15091509 views66 comments11 fav

Why do I love you? The monster that you are? I love you for revealing to me my strength My determination, my will My need to survive I love you for showing me the gift that is living

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 34

15091509 views55 comments22 favs

—Now that’s a hell-of-a-painting, Frank, he said. Those colors are engaged in warfare. How the hell did you do that?

Strange

15091509 views1010 comments33 favs

Words are looking ever so strange today like a hole in space a wind in a cloud a face superimposed over a mountain

Lessons from Survivors

15091509 views00 comments00 favs

You cannot go back, you cannot go home, you cannot cannot cannot…Only in memory is it possible to travel back in time. We all imagine it. We relive happy moments, sad moments, we exist, time exists and it passes. We cannot stop it.

Mr. Pickle and Mr. Peet

15091509 views99 comments55 favs

We got a sandwich at Mr. Pickle's, but they cut the sandwich in the plastic. Plastic wrap.

No. Please, No . . .

15091509 views11 comment00 favs

["LIKE SAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ... SO ... ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES!"]

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 10

15091509 views33 comments44 favs

But the restaurants put pig in every little dish. You couldn't eat there without encountering some portion of pig. It was in everything, including the cabbage. Who puts pig in the cabbage? I'm asking you. And in the dumplings too. For God's sake, give it

In The Place Between - Part Three

15091509 views22 comments00 favs

“I do not know if you can hear me, or if you can talk to me. Some people do not believe in people like you, you know, spirits, ghosts or whatever you are. I do. I know you are here because of what happened here.” I could not speak. I did not feel I could.

ALL THE REPORTERS WANT WAR

15091509 views77 comments33 favs

The countdown is on and daily the propaganda gets more and more aggravating It appears at times that the news media dictate and orchestrate more that just report on events of diplomatic shock. A huge effort has gone in to covering this coming war and it…

I Ask You, Erin Burnett...is it fair?

15091509 views22 comments22 favs

In the privacy of a booth?

Wounds

15091509 views1010 comments44 favs

Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

Fine, she said

15091509 views44 comments44 favs

A rope is cleaner, he explains with a straight face. He's calmed by the visual.

Hope's Amanuensis

15091509 views66 comments55 favs

I was low on carburetor / oxygen and my fraud protection / had just expired.

Aurora Borealis

15081508 views99 comments55 favs

I recalled the one night stand I'd had with the girl one balmy summer night in Minneapolis. We lay on my bed in the moonlight, and I touched the nipples of her tiny breasts with the thumb and pinkie of one hand.

What Keeps Us Awake

15081508 views11 comment00 favs

On Friday evenings they play Scrabble, a whole crowd of them. They use books to keep score, page numbers, instead of a long column of pencil scratches. They organize themselves into teams; the English majors all together, versus biology, history and horn players. She and he…

Global Arms

15081508 views1010 comments22 favs

~(+)~

Esmée

15081508 views33 comments11 fav

Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.

Take Back the Night

15081508 views1717 comments99 favs

A woman who is, say, a culinary arts champion or an heiress devoted to literature such as Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) or Peggy Guggenheim might be able to turn me on, turn me out, turn me around.

Thanking Harry

15081508 views22 comments22 favs

At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…

A THOUSAND PARROTS

15081508 views11 comment00 favs

  The parrots woke Eddie up. That and Rocker snoring in the twin bed. A thousand parrots flying over the motel? They squawked, God how they…

Playing Boggle with Lowell's Mind

15081508 views77 comments44 favs

lewd sinew swine

Death by Dinner

15081508 views22 comments00 favs

I can't believe it's Frankie, but there he is at a table on the far side, just in front of the big picture window. I hold the menu close to my face and peek again over the top, watching as he reaches under the white linen tablecloth to plant…