Most read stories

Bearded Lady

14591459 views44 comments33 favs

Nights this husband returned home still hungry sometimes, even for her forearms against his own

Triolet

14591459 views1111 comments88 favs

the magic is our making

The Ruined Person

14591459 views00 comments00 favs

The pit of my stomach was bottoming out, this lurching sort-of feeling one experiences when one has coasted WELL OVER an abyss and has no way of finding one's bearings . . .

###moth#7###

14591459 views22 comments22 favs

what was she like you ask? smarter than me for instance she could type alot faster. and she didn’t worry constantly about being poor or having a family looking over her shoulder. maybe that’s what she did with boys. 17 years later and she is in my bed

Wounds

14591459 views1010 comments44 favs

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

Imaginary Photo Album

14581458 views44 comments33 favs

Let me swim into your eyes. Let me show you my world. My album. My Albania. My albumen.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 67

14581458 views22 comments11 fav

Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.

Life at the Brew-Ha-Ha Pub

14581458 views66 comments55 favs

No matter what you may discover Or come to believe during the drinking life The question still remains: What if everyone was an accident? But still, while time may appear To be nearing its own end And the sun seems to be getting

The Gift

14581458 views00 comments00 favs

This was the anniversary of the chairs. He would celebrate tonight for the chairs, and the chairs would welcome him.

Laughing All The Way To The 2020 Election

14581458 views55 comments44 favs

After President Trump was elected, my first impulse was to spend the next four years cowering under the bed, whimpering.While I knew that I needed to keep track of what our new commander in chief was up to, watching the news made me too angry and too sad and just too…

the global obscenity of your monthly $100 coffee habit [revised]

14581458 views1010 comments33 favs

My sixth grade teacher used to tell us all the time about how being poor is nowhere near the same as liv­ing in poverty.

The Creator of the Nipple

14581458 views66 comments22 favs

Speaking of stiff nipples, I heard you once wanted to become a painter, because of your fondness for nipples. Feeling like Gauguin and his little Polynesian women/girls, are we? So, you're going to try to out-paint God, are you, Mr. Sistine Chapel of the

M+3

14581458 views88 comments55 favs

In the diffuse light of early morning you wear a sweat suit maybe and stand in front of a model-kitchen counter in a model-home kitchen

Helpless

14581458 views66 comments44 favs

She stiffens and blusters and roars Not like a storm, Not like a lion. Like a badger, caught in the steel jaws of a trap.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.4 - c.4

14581458 views00 comments00 favs

Mayumi faced forward, channeled her Mana, and gathered a small pocket of air under hand. Soon the voice returned, rattling her mind.

For J.S. Bach’s Three-hundred-twenty-eighth Birthday

14581458 views66 comments55 favs

To listen is to feel embodied reason// sing and dance with consummate grace

Inheritance

14581458 views44 comments44 favs

My father died. I took his clothes.

Kim Chow Click Click

14581458 views22 comments22 favs

Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.

Brasita de Fuego

14581458 views11 comment11 fav

I still picture her waving her bare arms and hands into the purple bellied clouds above the trees, her crooked smile, the spiraling silver maple seeds cascading soft circles around her determined reach, as though the very tree limbs shaping the sky above

Jane

14571457 views1111 comments66 favs

Jane knew what to do when she heard murmurs in the ceiling, knew what to do when she struck out on the moor.

Name

14571457 views11 comment11 fav

Every day, I write myself further away From the East Where we began

So freaking tired

14571457 views1414 comments66 favs

So many dreams I need to visit, though

Imminent Weather, Five AM

14571457 views1111 comments55 favs

The spectacle of weather/ on the prairies approaches.

1st and Goal

14571457 views1414 comments1010 favs

My grandfather was ninety three. My mother was sixty three. I was thirty three. My daughter had just turned three. Our ages were all lined up like the beauty marks on Snow White in the Donald Barthelme version of the story.

To a Young Atheist & Intellectual with Dior Glasses

14571457 views22 comments22 favs

You have such a complicated mind / for refusing to believe in God / just like any damned liberal / whose fingerprints / crowd the faces of a thousand / dollar bills / being passed around your great nation...

Sick Day

14571457 views11 comment00 favs

Marcy was not herself today, her mother said when the school called. She was under the weather and she could not play with the other children. Marcy's mother began to suspect that her daughter was not herself very early on that day. Walking up the stairs Dolores…

As the Wine Keeps Flowing

14571457 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…

So Twinkle Made Lemonade

14571457 views1111 comments88 favs

“Just how many different animals try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind sometimes showing our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be another…

At the Revolution

14571457 views1212 comments1010 favs

When we go to the streets/ we’ll have no guns

Rhapsody in the Rain

14571457 views66 comments33 favs

so many bills to pay the list keeps shedding its skin like a snake