Most read stories

Not So Thoughtful After All

14711471 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…

Old Shoes for Stranded Soles

14711471 views88 comments66 favs

There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …

The Boot

14711471 views22 comments33 favs

my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

14711471 views1313 comments1010 favs

Tentacles hold fast to the small/ thrashing thing they believe is true// which, devoured, once crushed/ completely still, turns into shit,

The Dead

14711471 views66 comments44 favs

The dead want you to calm down.They are quite fine, and don't needyour post-mortem tears, the flowers and veils; their names mispronounced by preachers. None of your catechisms will do -- especiallyfor the children, who know them well and need no…

Twelve Pens

14711471 views55 comments55 favs

Their last story

Who Do You Want To Live With?

14711471 views33 comments22 favs

“Guys, who would you rather live with.... Mom... or Dad.” His younger siblings giggled in shock, not that they hadn’t thought about it... apparently. "You know I'm right here..." I joked, waving at them. “I’d rather live with mom.” the question-a

This Is Why

14711471 views22 comments00 favs

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

Mr. Sunrise

14711471 views00 comments00 favs

To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 48

14701470 views44 comments11 fav

Ben was not a happy musician.

Wild Origin

14701470 views55 comments33 favs

Seeking your will, instead we found, somehow, a clutch of our own documents; folded under a rubber band gone to rot, muddy strands nestled in the creases.

How We Fight

14701470 views66 comments11 fav

HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…

Low Dose Yoga

14701470 views1111 comments77 favs

Names are forbidden here. So is apology.

As the Bat Cave Turns

14701470 views55 comments44 favs

A study found that in bat species noted for female monogamy male bats have small testes and big brains, while in species noted for female promiscuity males have testicles five times as big, but smaller brains.

The Voice of My Body

14701470 views11 comment00 favs

It's saying, "It feels as if you've given me your old, your tired and your poor. I feel much older than the years you've logged."

Rain Typing

14701470 views33 comments22 favs

"I'm just going to take a power nap!"

The Morning

14701470 views00 comments00 favs

Early in the morning I wanted to send you something for when you wake;

Quarter-turn the Quaternion

14701470 views44 comments00 favs

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

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

14701470 views55 comments55 favs

This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

The Last Warrior

14701470 views11 comment22 favs

His wings, like tiny shoots, grew a season in an instant. The pain was gone now. He rose up as effortlessly as centaurs run, as angels fly. "I will sing your name as my brother among my brothers," the Seraph promised. Kladius watched the beasts below

Flash Before Your Eyes

14701470 views66 comments11 fav

It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha

Freedom

14701470 views77 comments77 favs

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

Two Weeks in a Dristan Land

14691469 views1212 comments99 favs

I smelled the bleach of burst anemones the sweet arousal of the Dungeness crabs the seaweed of sour twigs and feces

Unclassifieds 1

14691469 views11 comment11 fav

*Must have excellent communication skills and be able to talk pretty good.

Amanda Palmer

14691469 views33 comments33 favs

Amanda Palmer's explaining the eyebrow thing. An altercation with someone at Roadrunner, or maybe old boyfriend shit to burn— She's animated but he's losing signal, filling in the blanks himself. Whatever, it won't light at first, and then WHUMP and she…

Junk Pulse

14691469 views33 comments33 favs

Me included...

Her Man in the Navy Blues

14691469 views66 comments33 favs

In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin

Glass Rooster

14691469 views33 comments11 fav

ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers

Another Ending

14691469 views66 comments44 favs

you tell a stranger's story...

Sleepwalker

14691469 views22 comments22 favs

I may as well have been sleepwalking. Either way, I had no opportunity to admire the moonlight flooding into the long corridors, illuminating the stag heads and painted cheeks of long-dead ancestors.