Most read stories

My Daughter Belongs In a Mental Home

13541354 views00 comments11 fav

[............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................]

Books

13541354 views22 comments22 favs

'Like poems,’ I said she paused and nodded her black mop.

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

13541354 views77 comments88 favs

Herr Toad smokin'

I Laughed at the Ants

13541354 views55 comments44 favs

It IS good, right?

GENESIS

13541354 views00 comments00 favs

And God said unto the oil can: “Thou art cursed above the cattle, and above every beast of the field. And deep the ground shalt thou go.” “Mother,” said the oil can, “fucker!”

Quarter-turn the Quaternion

13541354 views44 comments00 favs

One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.

Citadel

13541354 views44 comments22 favs

Last night we slept with books in the bed.

Open Wounds

13541354 views11 comment11 fav

Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th

Aftermath

13531353 views44 comments22 favs

They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and Began their loathsome ch

1940 What I Wanted

13531353 views1212 comments33 favs

But this ache wouldn't leave me.

Remedy

13531353 views1313 comments1010 favs

the last, best// analgesic--/ guaranteed

Imminent Weather, Five AM

13531353 views1111 comments55 favs

The spectacle of weather/ on the prairies approaches.

Ferdinand Gets Married

13531353 views88 comments33 favs

You have the right to be happy

Seasonal Affective Disorder

13531353 views1212 comments1010 favs

A man of action would take to his rake/ but Sloth would rather watch and wait/ for snow to erase each leaf on leaf.

After Eliot

13531353 views55 comments22 favs

Her breath was on me

How Was Your Afternoon, Dear? 2

13531353 views77 comments55 favs

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

Loveless Lover

13531353 views88 comments55 favs

Love me like a crutch Love me when I'm strong

Gulf War

13531353 views1515 comments1010 favs

Someone's ass should be kicked.

Annals of the Naked Rowdies #3

13531353 views1515 comments44 favs

It was a dire and dun-colored year when groupies wept and autograph seekers put down their pens.

This Is Why

13531353 views22 comments00 favs

Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name

Ascension of the Conquistador

13531353 views33 comments11 fav

One of Montejo's cap­tains has us drilling in the rain again. The sun hasn't shone for days and the air is sti­fling, like try­ing to breath under water. Every­thing looks gray except the palms. Each green leaf droops in the rain like a…

One Sick, Two Sick, Red Sick, Blue Sick

13531353 views66 comments55 favs

I found a diseased fish / wedged between some boulders near the pier

Dead to Rights

13531353 views22 comments00 favs

He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…

(On Tuesday...)

13521352 views66 comments33 favs

On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.

Aftermath

13521352 views22 comments11 fav

Oh sweet, sweet morning light

Carnival Beach

13521352 views00 comments11 fav

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

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot

13521352 views22 comments11 fav

In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.

This Time

13521352 views1010 comments77 favs

This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.

Unexpected Flying Objects

13521352 views00 comments00 favs

Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to

Bunker

13521352 views99 comments88 favs

Dressed as an English professor on Halloween I escape the red devil and run downtown. I go to the Art Car hangar I dance, I swing my golden brown briefcase