Most read stories

Four, in the Morning

15081508 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.

hush

15081508 views1111 comments88 favs

every timeyou openyour mouthan angel fallsinto a vat of whiskyshut ityou're fucking up heaven2013 - Rene

The Savage (K2)

15081508 views66 comments66 favs

Rises monstrous out of the Baltoro GlacierPlaying poker with oxygen levelsPlays leap frog with embolisms.Malice and vanity join forces somurder guns the air even beforethe Death Zone. Down suits, bold and cockyregisters the climber's ambitions. The Serac , a…

various verses

15081508 views77 comments66 favs

in a willow garden lush shade/drapes dark the young woman's small house/with the lone window, the white door . . .

###moth#7###

15081508 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

A Year and a Day Then

15081508 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…

The Finding Smile

15081508 views11 comment11 fav

My mother gave her all to convince him to be a politician. My sister begged on bleeding knees for him to give her head. I just needed somebody to help me find things.

How Things Fall Apart

15081508 views33 comments33 favs

The leaves/ seek reunion with the ground// and leave the oak tree naked/ in December’s cold.

My Glass is Waiting

15081508 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.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

15081508 views77 comments33 favs

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

Oh Portland.

15081508 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

Sold 2 Books Though

15071507 views88 comments77 favs

Reading at Menlo Park Senior Center, old people falling asleep leaning to the left in their chairs, all in the same direction.

Forever and a Day

15071507 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

The United States of America

15071507 views11 comment00 favs

In the United States of America children everywhere are waiting for summer vacation. To a child in the United States, there is summer vacation and then there is everything else. Summer vacation is freedom. The united states was built on the foundation that one day we will…

Skin Wins

15071507 views1010 comments88 favs

One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…

Oprah's Sister Murdered My Story

15071507 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…

The Ritz

15071507 views88 comments33 favs

After oh so many hours the eyes could only close only to view a Ritz cracker marching on a nose

Fairy Tale

15071507 views44 comments33 favs

Ey’, it’s where I followed him down

Maggie

15071507 views00 comments00 favs

But she didn't. It would have been no historical anomaly if she had, by the way. She played with the world like it was a toy. Sometimes I wondered if I'd wake up in a box, a victim of live internment, and scream only to be humiliated later by her laughter

OUT ON THE EDGE OF VICTORIAN CIVILIZATION

15071507 views00 comments00 favs

Lottie was a slim, fine looking woman. But Dale thought her breast implants were the worst case of overkill he had ever seen.

If Blake had only known

15071507 views1111 comments66 favs

Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.

The Noise

15071507 views77 comments55 favs

I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…

Meaning of Life # 18

15071507 views33 comments33 favs

To hell with the moon!

Come to the Park

15071507 views11 comment11 fav

Come to the park and swing with me, sing with me.

More Of My Dark Job History

15071507 views55 comments55 favs

In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,

trenton

15061506 views55 comments33 favs

his word

Carnival Beach

15061506 views00 comments11 fav

Galloping people, tangled in ballets of hot love, weaving in and out, making a canvas of it.

The Meeting

15061506 views55 comments55 favs

When he leans back from the telescope through which he had been looking, he sports a derby and a Hercule Poirot moustache.

So freaking tired

15061506 views1414 comments66 favs

So many dreams I need to visit, though

Mercury

15061506 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…