Most read stories

Bedtime Stories

14861486 views33 comments11 fav

I want to read a story that ends unhappily ever after: one where the bad guy wins and no one gets the girl.

Pleasure (it was) after all...

14861486 views55 comments33 favs

I'm gonna write about this after...It'll either be a tale of pain or pleasure hopefully the latterI don't understand how this workswhy sometimes I want to hide from myself other times I can just give in, fully,and everything isohsoheightenedI want it to be beautifuland…

It's Part of the Plan

14851485 views44 comments44 favs

...and on the eighth day

Event Particle (9)

14851485 views44 comments33 favs

leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes

The Washing of the Quilts

14851485 views33 comments11 fav

Sweaty feet, drool from the weighty sleep of mid-afternoon naps, the inescapable perspiration of the South: all combine to create the entwined scent of socks and stale toothbrushes...

As the Wine Keeps Flowing

14851485 views1010 comments77 favs

My blood has turned to flour I've been in Babylon too long My heart was singed by fire But it's drowning in my song We raised a prayer to Mary We had to take our share We took our places in the ferry But we didn't pay the fare And we don't know…

Flutter in Night

14851485 views1212 comments66 favs

Have you heard this yet? The daughter flew home to care for the mother, whose pump is still tick ticking—though now with aid—which means she leaves the kitchen when the microwave clicks on.

A New Chapter to Song of Solomon: A Poem

14851485 views33 comments11 fav

My beloved lets me crawl into bed and put my feet on him since his skin is warm and hot like a fire roaring from within his soft flesh.

Invoking Fire

14851485 views55 comments22 favs

We talk of his time in the jungle.

A Bad Year

14851485 views55 comments55 favs

It's been a bad year, People dying. Some too close to home, Some too far away. I cry down to you, In your casket, and think you might sit up. You were not sick You went in just a moment, Looking stunning and alive. Not…

Sorry, Charlie

14851485 views22 comments11 fav

Vietnam, Tet, and beaucoup Charlie

Mr. Pickle and Mr. Peet

14851485 views99 comments55 favs

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

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 10

14851485 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

Saturday TV with Dad

14851485 views88 comments77 favs

By the sixth - Dizz, Falstaff buzzed - Croons - The Wabash Cannonball

Bunking off

14851485 views55 comments33 favs

He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.

Ouroboros

14851485 views11 comment11 fav

It matters little who thought of it first, what mattered was the schism. Or, to be more accurate, those on the opposite sides of the schism. And, of course, you are a part of this, dear reader. You are of one side or the other.

Assiduity Twenty One

14851485 views1111 comments55 favs

Blue skies greet us as we exit the forest . . .

stung

14851485 views1212 comments66 favs

Lust

How To Laugh and Be Happy When Not Drinking

14851485 views44 comments11 fav

That is the question, not to be or not to be Life, death, whether to be, all that is superfluous in the face of laughter and how to achieve it under extraordinary circumstances like not drinking anymore I’m afraid not all the alcoh

The Fetishist

14841484 views99 comments77 favs

Sex is a fetish war -- a battle of trinkets of desire

Sensation

14841484 views00 comments11 fav

She could see him doing these things but she could not hear him.

Swords of Rome

14841484 views00 comments00 favs

Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi

Take Back the Night

14841484 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

14841484 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…

Unsent

14841484 views55 comments44 favs

this is where we end -- the exorbitant eye of forgotten days.

You Shine Brightest Under the Starlit Sky

14841484 views00 comments00 favs

You shine brightest under a starlit skyThe moon reflects your beautyAs the wind sings your name sweetlyIt was under the heavens that we promised togetherThat I'll hold your hand and you'll be mine forever... You glow brightest when the sun is at its highestYour radiant…

Go Wild

14841484 views77 comments33 favs

Sometimes you have to go wild; you have just to go fucking nuts. You do.

Vanishing Point

14841484 views1212 comments88 favs

the two become one where/ all things end,

A Next Step

14841484 views1010 comments88 favs

The first night I met her we slow danced to George Strait songs for most of the evening and when we took a break, our talking went warm and well as we sat eating hot dogs and sipping beers until she dropped a couple of bombs, first, telling me she was married and then, that…

Deer People

14841484 views55 comments11 fav

There was no provision for keeping the post on the door, but I did not have the fingernails to pry it off.