Most read stories

And so, like a kind of molting

15071507 views44 comments44 favs

So for now, let the snow fall, but let it fall gently, each flake as a soft piano note

hush

15071507 views1111 comments88 favs

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

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.

How Things Fall Apart

15071507 views33 comments33 favs

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

The Judge's Wife Part 6

15071507 views44 comments33 favs

—Strip down to your shorts. Put on this gown, open to the rear.

Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach

15071507 views77 comments33 favs

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

trenton

15061506 views55 comments33 favs

his word

Safe

15061506 views77 comments66 favs

Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…

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…

Oprah's Sister Murdered My Story

15061506 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…

Not So Thoughtful After All

15061506 views33 comments44 favs

She put the Necco wafer on Sally's tongue."You can't be the priest, Emma" Sally said nearly choking on the hard, chalky disk."Then why you on yaw knees stupid?""You said to be prayin' and like in church, but you can't be doin' priest stuff. That's for…

Session

15061506 views33 comments00 favs

Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.

Aisle Seven

15061506 views33 comments22 favs

A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,

Factory Worker

15061506 views00 comments00 favs

Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break

From "One of: A Family Miscellany"

15061506 views44 comments33 favs

" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

Esmeralda

15061506 views33 comments22 favs

Being an uncredited bonus composition, written in the sublimest access of divine afflatus this poet believes his lyric verse has ever known. “In olden times, dark was not counted fair”: Those were the words, I think, of some old poet. …

Separation

15061506 views55 comments22 favs

The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.

Worry Is for the Well-Rested

15061506 views44 comments11 fav

I'm in the boardroom, downtown in San Francisco. I don't even remember showing up for work today. I hope they fire me, just like they fired Bill. Well not exactly like that, that was awful. He was caught downloading a phenomenal amount of…

The Book You'll Never Read

15061506 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…

If Blake had only known

15061506 views1111 comments66 favs

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

The Young Woman Swimming

15061506 views1111 comments55 favs

She stepped inlike ice alonecould save hershe dived,slicing the wavewith her body her fresh pony tailsubmergedlike a silk scarfthen swam moving thewater awaylike whirlpoolscould hold her buoyantly save her from the headachewhispering wordsThey had been there all…

Luminous Nights, 8

15061506 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

More Of My Dark Job History

15061506 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.,

Imagining the Reading as Effacement

15061506 views88 comments66 favs

What the spaces say// can be heard in the short/ and longer silences

Freedom

15061506 views77 comments77 favs

She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.

Forever and a Day

15051505 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

The Meeting

15051505 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.

the PC birds have come home to roost

15051505 views22 comments11 fav

I want the luxury of hearing other people who disagree with me tell me why I’m an asshole!