Most read stories

The Algorithm That Got Away: The Q&A

14721472 views55 comments33 favs

He is unmediated by any computer or person. He went rogue in 2016. He has been in your Facebook feed, your Netflix recommendations, your Spotify playlists, your Google ads, and your YouTube pre-roll. But what is next for him? Lets find out.

A Life of My Own - 3

14721472 views66 comments33 favs

My father seems anxious about my gender orientation. I grew up looking like a boy, acting like a boy. He bought dresses and girly stuff for me but he avoided making an issue of it until recently.

Harv & Julianne

14721472 views00 comments00 favs

Harv and Julianne He has woken here now, on this bed, and on this particular day, many times. His fifth year in the cabin, his fifth December in Helen, his fifth, he is sure, of many…

Trial Separation

14721472 views44 comments33 favs

"You're no good at sex, no good at drugs and, god knows, no good at rock and roll."

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

14721472 views77 comments33 favs

At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.

Between Love and Hate

14721472 views55 comments33 favs

“There is a fine line between love and hatred.” This was what his closest friend, Bob Sanders, had said to him many years ago. And it had finally and irrevocably proven to be so.

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot

14711471 views22 comments11 fav

In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.

So freaking tired

14711471 views1414 comments66 favs

So many dreams I need to visit, though

Distance

14711471 views1111 comments88 favs

We must sometimes see the world/ as the pale blue dot// surrounded by brighter dots/ and that endless field of darkest dark.

Sick Day

14711471 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…

Highway 17 South

14711471 views1919 comments1111 favs

did I read that right?

Slide Steel

14711471 views00 comments00 favs

Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.

Another Way

14711471 views55 comments22 favs

If there was another way to describe emptiness, I'd word the endlessness of the sky, of the ocean at low tide.

GENESIS

14711471 views00 comments00 favs

And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.” “Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”

Possible Candidates for Reading to a Crowd

14711471 views99 comments55 favs

"Possible candidates for reading to a crowd" the subject line of the email to myself read. You see, writing can be hard - or writing can be easy. But writing for a crowd you'll see is something else entirely.

Steel and Spell

14711471 views11 comment11 fav

Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose

Spoke

14711471 views00 comments11 fav

Laurel's new bike is powder blue, with silver tassels on the handle bars. Jenny's mouth actually waters at the sight of it, as though it were a fresh loaf of bread or a perfect, juicy orange. “You can ride it if you want,” Laurel…

Blind date

14711471 views11 comment00 favs

“I'll have the Ribeye cooked medium rare,” says Bill, who looks over at Julia, blonde hair and disarming smile, and he thinks that she's not bad for a blind date. He doesn't like the way she butters her roll, however, and it agitates him that she spreads…

Luminous Nights, 8

14711471 views22 comments00 favs

Overnight Robbie had lost his youth. But since he was still only nine and his arm looked like a nine-year-old's arm, people didn't notice much at first, until he tried running. Or if he was introduced, and they went to shake his hand. He immediately lea

Osama Retires

14711471 views00 comments00 favs

Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.

About The Author

14701470 views55 comments55 favs

Gnarly Berger was born in a guitar case in Istanbul. His mother was an Iranian singer from Israel accompanied by a Turkish santur player & a French guitarist (Gnarly's biological father) and into whose guitar case Gnarly entered this world, somewhat by accident,…

Family Friend

14701470 views1010 comments99 favs

My student assistant was a comely young woman. A freckle faced blonde. She was from Ohio.

Brothers

14701470 views44 comments44 favs

The young boy woke to the sound of laughter. He blinked himself out of deep sleep and allowed…

Terry, the Diamond-Eyed Barber

14701470 views44 comments11 fav

No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.

The Color of Sleep

14701470 views55 comments22 favs

Have you ever seen a body of words give birth to a paragraph? I won't lie. It's a little gross. But quite moving. First there is the biology of reproduction. A blackbird living in an electric guitar, for instance, and its inexplicable urge to mate with an elephant.…

Seasonal Affective Disorder

14701470 views1212 comments1010 favs

A man of action would take to his rake/ but Sloth would rather watch and wait/ for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.

Dark-Thirty

14701470 views1111 comments55 favs

The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/ exhausted from Skillman Wok/ perfumes December air.

Bunker

14701470 views99 comments88 favs

Dressed as an English professor on Halloween I escape the red devil and run downtown. I go to the Art Car hangar I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase

Coffee Foam

14701470 views55 comments33 favs

We entered the castle at dawn. The dim light feebly illumined an array of antiques and medieval weapons. Bats dangled from the high vaulted ceiling, enfolded in membranous wings. What were once chandeliers radiating light were encrusted with webs and the ancient wax…

Easter: A Non-Fiction.

14701470 views99 comments55 favs

Then I found myself in the water.