Most read stories

Looking for Comments

13251325 views33 comments22 favs

So do you read my writing?I text youI need to know whatyou like betterThe bloodor the gutsThat's what it is.You see Iput it out therefor you.That's not what it saysbut I know the truth.Am I smart enoughgood enoughdo you think it's crapbecause anyone can like it…

Modern Teleology

13251325 views77 comments77 favs

little curly moustaches

There There There

13251325 views1515 comments88 favs

i hear the boom boom boom in the room room room

Resource Management

13251325 views1010 comments33 favs

’m sure they have their/ cleverest working on it, though.

Not Good Enough

13251325 views99 comments1010 favs

So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…

One Kiss

13251325 views99 comments66 favs

"It was one kiss. No tongue. What does that even mean?" Lindley tried to see Leah as any other patient, "What do you want it to mean?" "I don't know," Leah whined, tears welling, "something, maybe. You know I hate surprises." Her sister was not another…

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.2

13251325 views00 comments00 favs

Mayumi approached them; her memories of their faces from the texts they received from each other had come alive.

Modern Car Problems

13251325 views33 comments33 favs

Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.

Personal Time

13251325 views00 comments00 favs

“I”, fuck it. I, I, I, I. It has always only been about me, this voice of mine, indivisibly me. selfishly and pompously. I shall not dispense with the false pleasantries other writers will offer, those writers that say, “Reader, look here, look at the…

Fire Alarm

13251325 views99 comments88 favs

You snore and the house is safe again.

Mr. Sunrise

13251325 views00 comments00 favs

To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.

Rock Band Days

13251325 views1313 comments55 favs

There were guitar players, and as happens with talent sometimes, the guitar players were too talented. There could not be places for all of them in a single rock band.

Boil

13251325 views33 comments22 favs

Boil (n.)––1. Pus-filled pustule inflammation of the skin, usually painful. 2. Slang boiled pus, bucket of (n. phrase)“Your asshole brain is a bucket of boiled pus.” (see also pus, SCOTTISH derogatory term for face.

Remedy

13241324 views1313 comments1010 favs

the last, best// analgesic--/ guaranteed

How Was Your Afternoon, Dear? 2

13241324 views77 comments55 favs

The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.

Before I Die

13241324 views22 comments11 fav

...to know they are not alone

In an Unfamiliar Restaurant.

13241324 views55 comments44 favs

I find myself in an unfamiliar restaurant, its cuisine an uncomfortable pastiche of Croatian, Burmese, Jamaican and leftovers of long ago Sunday dinners in a small New England town.

Nose

13241324 views1111 comments88 favs

At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.

Trickery

13241324 views77 comments66 favs

Maybe it was a trick of the gloom.

Things Like This

13241324 views66 comments44 favs

I'm an older guy. She is still quite young. I tell her I may be too old but she giggles and tells me that she did the research and it said because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean no fire's in the stove. She proved it. Things like this. We excite ourselves,…

The letter.

13241324 views33 comments22 favs

I am useless. A freak. Different. They all hate me now. All except you, of course. You will never leave me. Never. I'd kill them all if I could. Every single one. But twenty-four, that's a lot even for me. I'm so sick of the cliques; the special groups and hastily strung…

Against the Wall

13241324 views99 comments44 favs

happily fling Molotov cocktails// against ICE agents in armored vehicles/ and sing the pain of their burning deaths/ as triumph against asininity.

Untitled Haiku from Japanese Game Show by JANEY SMITH

13241324 views11 comment11 fav

It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.

Washing the dishes...

13241324 views55 comments55 favs

There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.

Apex

13241324 views66 comments44 favs

You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.

Modern Fable

13241324 views88 comments55 favs

there's looks between the covers and shotguns in the drawer

thank you, for everything

13241324 views44 comments22 favs

I was in life, in my dream. I was feeling around underneath your clothing. My fingers were shining in the underwater afterlife of memory, searching for those lovely nipple-sized mollusks. I lived in a land somewhere between the past and the future. Now

PAPA'S TEARS

13241324 views55 comments11 fav

Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…

Absinthe Drinking in a Bar in Paris

13241324 views22 comments00 favs

Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…

This Old Man

13241324 views22 comments00 favs

“Have I told you this one before?” I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.