Most read stories

Paris Love Songs: Nos. 5 & 6

14741474 views88 comments77 favs

Aucune idée

Angelique

14731473 views44 comments44 favs

She is an old soul...

three gretchens

14731473 views22 comments00 favs

The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen

The Color of Sleep

14731473 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.…

An Open Letter To Lance Armstrong

14731473 views00 comments00 favs

When I get my legs pumping, I’ll pop a spoke if I'm not careful. Massive fucking energy! And all that fat I was talking about? I don’t even really have that much of it, any of it really. My body fat is like one percent, which the doctors tell me isn’t

Eternal Return

14731473 views66 comments55 favs

When I slip through the seams I return to the same place.

The Sorry March to the Even Sorrier Sea

14731473 views88 comments33 favs

goes on and on. Like it's a sad mad season on Mars, well it isn't, is it? Sometimes I have towonder whatever happenedto us, to make us forget how well we already know how tosing as good as any larks do? I have never wantedto drown, but I've…

Star Crossed Anglers

14731473 views00 comments00 favs

“Got a big one boy! He's movin' real fast! Don't think he has had time to eat the bait just yet, so we need to play him out. Let the hook set. Don't want to loose him! Get the net ready!”

A Year and a Day Then

14731473 views88 comments66 favs

Removing the deeply embedded jack-blade frommy naked side, like any slicked-upsplinter, was just a bit jarring on the first bite, on first try, I must admit. I freelydo so now to your frozen-over faces. You made your…

Lost Keys

14731473 views44 comments11 fav

The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!

No Flowers in June

14731473 views99 comments00 favs

Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.

Escaped Poems

14731473 views44 comments44 favs

Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.

Arcana Magi Zero + Pure - c.11

14731473 views00 comments00 favs

Ayane took another look of the area and it was large warehouse. A loud thud vibrated outside.

Family Friend

14721472 views1010 comments99 favs

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

Cleaverly Done!

14721472 views22 comments11 fav

‘what’s the hassle kiddo, chopping meat is fun, come here and listen to the music of the chop, the sound of steel ripping through air, slicing through flesh and hitting wood, poetry I say’.

in defense of assholes

14721472 views33 comments22 favs

No excerpt for you.

The Perfect Command

14721472 views22 comments11 fav

He stood in front of her. They stood eye to eye. "You aren't supposed to look me in the eye. If I were anyone else you would be smacked down on the ground right now. Treat me as you would a lover, your master."

Saturday Birthdays (from FATHER MUST)

14721472 views00 comments00 favs

When his mother was all dressed up on New Year’s Eve, and his father, even thought they had tickets for the dance, announced to her he wasn’t going to go, Johnny had gone into his room, put on a white shirt, a dark suit, his dress shoes, and a clip-o

Trash Burning, 1976

14721472 views1313 comments1010 favs

This time the bag's bigger/than the boy and the door.

###moth#7###

14721472 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

The Family Tradition

14721472 views00 comments00 favs

Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…

Brothers

14711471 views44 comments44 favs

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

Nine Women

14711471 views22 comments11 fav

"Haven't you ever had some little thing you would rather everyone just left you alone about? I don't like to have my picture taken. Please don't ask me again."

Gentleman Freddy

14711471 views33 comments00 favs

Roanne, just out of jail, went to cop. That is, she went to beg fat little Freddy the dopeman to front her once more. She'd have to fuck Freddy, of course, but, well, maybe he'd wait until after this time. Likely not…

Mercury

14711471 views55 comments22 favs

At 11 pm, it is 87 degrees and I sit in front of the air conditioner, eating oatmeal. The oats aren't soft enough, but it is sugary and fills me. Outside, the city hovers at the edge of a brown out, people sweating hopelessly inside small boxes. In Utah, it was cold…

Everything that's Gone Wrong, has Gone Wrong Because of Football

14711471 views11 comment00 favs

I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.

Vesper

14711471 views55 comments44 favs

. . . how a body calls in the dark. . .

Coffee Foam

14711471 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…

Assiduity Twenty

14711471 views77 comments33 favs

I experience a presence when walking through the forest . . .

Serve & Protect

14711471 views22 comments22 favs

If she was still breathing, Tom promised himself he would let her live, but right then his shoulder ached and his right hand was throbbing.