Most read stories

This Story is Terrible, and I Only Wrote It to Annoy You People

28172817 views77 comments33 favs

[DON'T OPEN 'TIL X-MAS!]

Better Boys, Early Girls

28162816 views2525 comments1414 favs

... tomatoes swelling and turning pink...

The Magical Thinking of Birds

28162816 views2020 comments1313 favs

Her eyes grew wide, moist, catching the low light, holding onto it as if an imprisoned lover. "So you come home." I smiled. Was she playing a game?

Rags to Riches to Rags: Prologue

28152815 views66 comments66 favs

My grandfather rode with the Czar’s army. He was abducted from a village in Austria, trained to pillage and drink, plunder and rape, and ride the best horses that could be had. They were given the best vodka and the sharpest swords. They were all just boy

The Fault In Our Three Stars

28152815 views2121 comments2121 favs

So there are these teenagers and they're all dying of cancer, or at least were dying of cancer, or might be dying of cancer, and then a couple of them fall in love and lose their virginity to each other, and these teens, they're all smart and charming and only a little…

Lang's Dragon

28152815 views1010 comments88 favs

Fritz Lang. Even before I ever met the miserable son of a bitch, with his monocle and superior airs, I hated him. In person, he was an insufferable asshole.

stinking nightgown

28152815 views99 comments66 favs

Frank says if I eat the whole bowl of live crickets he’ll give me five dollars and his grandfather’s silver bullet from the war.

Often I think on who pulls the strings,

28142814 views77 comments66 favs

In a plush leather chair, / high up a shiny skyscraper,

Soviet

28142814 views11 comment11 fav

The neatly-gentrified Mtsensk District plaster buckled in all the right grey-painted places. The aged, yellowing windows rose and fell in fashionable decay. It was a well-upholstered citizen's slum, drawn to exacting state specifications. Local housing authorities…

Nevertheless The Plan Was Not Implemented

28142814 views77 comments55 favs

Thomas Friedman was right when he said, “Much of this biodiversity in Indonesia is now under threat.” It had been this way since gasoline became currency; I remember bartering with The Governance for the newest edition of The Guinness Book of

A Facebook Love Story

28142814 views44 comments11 fav

This is a story about Jim and Robin. They are strangers. Or at least they were. They are at the same party, but standing on opposite sides of the room. Robin is standing near the door thinking, “I wish there was someone here to talk to,” when she sees Jim. …

If Everything is Inevitable

28142814 views1616 comments99 favs

Christine comes back from the future looking tired, which is the opposite of what I expected. For some reason, I imagined the future as being invigorating. But she walks into the apartment and abandons her suitcase by the front door, collapses into a heap on the couch next…

Clover Grill: A Short Story

28132813 views1313 comments55 favs

I'm somewhere on I-10 in Mississippi, barreling westbound at 80 miles an hour through a rainstorm on a late Wednesday afternoon. The last road sign I remember was for Beauvoir, some Confederate general's…

Simmer Time

28122812 views2626 comments33 favs

Usually the predawn light means bedtime for wicked guitar players, but not that bloody Sunday.

Gang Bangs, and My First Time, Almost

28112811 views66 comments33 favs

Glen always had to be the first to fuck his sister, especially before that big galoot from down the street, whom Cheryl really liked to fuck, otherwise Glen would get violent. She had just started having her periods then, I remember. We were all there one

Dinner at the Bigelows’

28082808 views44 comments00 favs

Mrs. Bigelow loaned Tessa a black tulle maid’s uniform and helped her pin it in at the sides. She tied on Tessa the stiff white apron. Slippery, pale, opaque stockings of real silk oozed through the girl’s fingers, secured by a heavy satin garter belt

An MFA Creative Writing Essay Question

28082808 views2424 comments1616 favs

7. Using Cohen's Method of Structure craft a piece of fiction featuring unexpected conflict. (12 points)

Cactus Subconscious

28072807 views1111 comments88 favs

The voice in the sand: "If it has soul you must funk it."

Anhedonia (excerpt)

28072807 views33 comments22 favs

Things have happened. It’s a given. What, are you crazy? Of course things have happened. It’s the world, for Christ’s sake. Things are happening. I am consistently missing most, if not all, of them.

A Prayer to the Porcelain God

28062806 views00 comments00 favs

In her cleavage, Mark is able to discern a golden heart with the image of an arrow piercing it. A bow is super-imposed over both. “I see you are a devotee of Cupid.” Mark states. “I notice that you are a follower of Bacchus.” Diana winks.

The Last Words of a Genius

28052805 views22 comments11 fav

The crowd gathered around the dying man's bed, waiting for his last words. He was a genius. The most prolific writer and philosopher to ever live. He wiped his ass with the words of Shakespeare. The thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Descartes, and Nietzsche w

What Einstein didn't say

28042804 views44 comments33 favs

First you must accept / the speed of light as constant. / If you can’t do that, stop reading.

Foo Fighters

28042804 views22 comments00 favs

Without a charge on the skin of the plane, we were struck by the bronze colored orb. Contact was brief, and it seemed as if the orb passed right through the aircraft. Despite the shielding of the equipment, most of it failed. We managed to land by "dead s

The Hole Between Them

28032803 views1212 comments66 favs

Opposite the foothills, on the field's southern edge, was a stand of old eucalyptus trees, each one a gnarled sentry with bark like burnt skin peeling from its trunk.

Women Making Love to Monsters

28022802 views11 comment22 favs

I started dating the Minotaur because of Colleen; at the time she was going with a friend of his. The whole thing was a surprise to me because I'd never been attracted to Greek men. This is how it happened. Colleen's new guy, Ian, was known by many…

Robotics

28022802 views55 comments55 favs

I made this robot. Everyone was making them. Mine was a vacuum cleaner with a rubber jack-o-lantern mask taped to the handle. His name was Z-Bot2131F, but I just called him Brady, after my dead brother. Brady, my brother, had come out cold, and…

White

28012801 views2727 comments1616 favs

“White,” he says. -- “Black,” I answer.

The Longfellow Bridge Diaries: Part 2

27992799 views22 comments22 favs

They sway from his hips, the torn knapsack, and the corners of the pushcart

The Accordion

27992799 views44 comments33 favs

If I play my accordion too loudly while you're painting, you complain. You stamp about in your room under mine. You fetch the broom from the closet and use it to thump vehemently on the ceiling. I feel the vibrations through my feet.

Zohra El Fassia by Erez Bitton

27982798 views22 comments11 fav

Poem: Zohra El Fassia by Erez Bitton