Most read stories

The Song of Jerome

14891489 views77 comments55 favs

"My love is with eggs!"

Barrier Island

14891489 views1111 comments77 favs

At the beach house

The Book You'll Never Read

14891489 views55 comments11 fav

THE BOOK YOU'LL NEVER READ CONTENTS This Is Not A Test In The Event Of A Nuclear Attack, This Message Will Be Followed By A Message From Your Local Civilian Defense Authority Fuck, The Radio Doesn't Work Trouble Shooting Radios The Top 40…

Steel and Spell

14891489 views11 comment11 fav

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

###moth#7###

14891489 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

Kim Chow Click Click

14891489 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.

My Glass is Waiting

14891489 views33 comments11 fav

The trouble with alarm clocks is naturally that they are miserable. And their curse is that their misery is useful: we employ them because we want to get away from them. But we would never have one as a friend.

Luminous Nights, 8

14891489 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

Oh Portland.

14891489 views00 comments00 favs

The purple sweater brought out the blue in her eyes. Fantastic eyes made of ice, she was a stunner, and she knew it. I met her at Slabtown

Rock and Sushi

14881488 views00 comments00 favs

If I remember him at all it’s because I decided not to flunk him so he could graduate. I had this theory that teachers should be bound by the same oath as doctors, First, do no harm.

So freaking tired

14881488 views1414 comments66 favs

So many dreams I need to visit, though

The Suicider (draft)

14881488 views00 comments00 favs

He woke up four hours later in his car in his garage with the worst headache of his life. He lurched out of the car and kicked over a basket of basil as he toddled towards the door to the house. He stopped and scooped the spilled basil back into the baske

Oprah's Sister Murdered My Story

14881488 views44 comments00 favs

Dear Patricia, You look marvelous. You seem marvelous. You've added wonder to Oprah's life and that's no small feat. But, here's the thing. I was working on this short story about a relative trying to get in touch with O, one of thousands, except, this one, well this one…

Blue Baby

14881488 views88 comments77 favs

they taught art

Quittin' Ain't Easy

14881488 views1616 comments55 favs

Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…

Sad without Tears

14881488 views11 comment00 favs

Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.

Betrayal

14881488 views22 comments00 favs

My brother Herb married his high school sweetheart right after completing college. This was a girl named Beryl, whom he'd met originally in Mr. Reinert's marching band at York High School in Elmhurst. I remember one day in particular in the middle of the

Sayōnara

14881488 views33 comments22 favs

He painted a woman on them, identical to the woman that kneeled by his bed.

The Road

14881488 views44 comments44 favs

we were traveling on wasn't necessarily going to go careening over any hill as fast as it was smashing into the blunt end of another cloudless hole like a cartoon cat chasing a cartoon mouse. It was huge like a stone wall that had its own…

This love.

14881488 views11 comment11 fav

- Never in pain and distance - Frown on these moments, With bitterness and vain

Inversions of Pound: Canto I

14871487 views77 comments44 favs

these tender girls tears recent / with stained souls, brides of dead, / cadaverous Erebus; unguarded ladder / long the down going…came Anticlea then

An Open Letter To Lance Armstrong

14871487 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

Small Ghosts

14871487 views1111 comments44 favs

the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…

The Museum

14871487 views11 comment00 favs

Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.

Vesper

14871487 views55 comments44 favs

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

Coffee Foam

14871487 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…

Dear Poet(s) of Tomorrow

14871487 views55 comments11 fav

you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.

Mercury Unbound - 5

14871487 views1616 comments55 favs

As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .

Linear A

14871487 views1717 comments99 favs

let’s press our words into the clay/ in language so completely dead/ we have to re-imagine it.

Four, in the Morning

14871487 views00 comments22 favs

We’d told her that Kasey waitressed. We talked about it a lot, trying to figure something out. I wanted to be honest with her. Kasey said she was too young to understand. I said that was why honesty wouldn’t hurt anything. Kasey said what about later.