Most read stories

Snarket

14771477 views77 comments33 favs

Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

We of the Paper-doll Brigade Are Not Hiding Our True Selves Anymore, A FaceBook Flash

14771477 views1010 comments33 favs

I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?

Movie Conference, 1963

14771477 views11 comment11 fav

Suddenly the producer, Irving, tosses a new idea into the discussion, an idea for a possible film. Then the writer, Herbert, does the talking. He performs, in fact, puts on a one-man show. The idea! The idea! It's…

Citadel

14771477 views44 comments22 favs

Last night we slept with books in the bed.

Ranger

14771477 views44 comments44 favs

“What. Is. That?” Sid asked, staring at the shaggy ball of fur sitting in the living room. Its tongue hung out of its mouth and its tail beat against the carpet.“This is Ranger,” his mom said. “I don't know what breed he is, but he's a sweetie…

Packing

14761476 views44 comments22 favs

I left Iowa in august when the air was thick and sticky. I had been there three years minus a few days when the boy I'd been sleeping with packed almost everything I owned into my car and waved goodbye. In Baltimore I had few friends and a job teaching English at a…

The United States of America

14761476 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…

I Am Quantum

14761476 views22 comments00 favs

He had a lean build, except, remarkably, his midsection was perfectly barrel-like. As if he kept an alien lifeform in his belly, cultivated by years of Pabst and Yuengling transfusions.

Leaping Through Flames

14761476 views00 comments00 favs

I should have never gotten involved in such a huge lie. I was a poet, for God's sake, not a novelist. I wasn't used to lying.

When Bad Things Happen To Other People

14761476 views44 comments22 favs

Years ago, I was involved in a freakish tragedy so startling and heartbreaking that it made the front page of not only my local newspaper, but “People” and “The National Enquirer.” I'm not going to tell you anything about it. This means that…

A Poem for Chris Toll

14761476 views11 comment11 fav

we all die from the bottom up

before Creation

14761476 views88 comments66 favs

Before Genesis, digesting the primordial soup.

Scar

14761476 views22 comments11 fav

I stared at these meteor impacts, feeling far away, a lone sentient cloud admiring the scoured yet wondrous earth-of-this-girl below me, the lean slope of her side, the soft dip of her neck, the sharp edge of her cheekbone, the monarch wing of her eyelash

Perfect Lady

14761476 views1010 comments77 favs

The Tea Party member was married but cuter. He worked as a caulker, a tub and basin man.

C-ing History

14761476 views1515 comments99 favs

Conjure calamity and calamity comes.

Downtown Milwaukee

14761476 views88 comments77 favs

Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …

Shadowland

14761476 views22 comments11 fav

His touch, even now, seemed to set off tremors inside her.

The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist

14761476 views11 comment00 favs

There was an implicit understanding, made clear by Athena's gentle stroking of Freddy's silky blond hair, that he would share her canopy bed with its frilly fuchsia pillows. He didn't mind this, despite despising the color of the pillows.

Consider The Son

14751475 views55 comments22 favs

Don’t forget, I’ve watched the evil you’ve done to the lawn for years, not to mention the chaos you’ve made of the woodshed. Don’t you remember me showing you how to properly stack the wood?

Taken from 'A Story of Me And You'

14751475 views44 comments00 favs

No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…

In Search of Vince’s Quinces

14751475 views88 comments00 favs

Beautiful, he thinks, as he taps the ash of his cigarette over the balcony, but this is not good enough.

Ghoster

14751475 views77 comments66 favs

Ross, I've been a ghost hunter for almost 10 years now and this is a place I said I WOULD NEVER NEVER EVER go to!

the heart would have unnatural reverence

14751475 views66 comments44 favs

The heart would have unnatural reverence, exalted, bursting with evil, rolling in sloth, if it did not at once reveal its innocence. I saw you again, on the morning of the sun. It was you, or your double, or a son you might have had. Your beautiful bloo

sabotage

14751475 views44 comments44 favs

people keep trying to get me/ "out of the house"./ they see fun in me, and cool in me,/ and want to spend time with me,/ and i am flattered most sincerely./

The Judge's Wife Part 8

14751475 views66 comments33 favs

—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.

Low Dose Yoga

14751475 views1111 comments77 favs

Names are forbidden here. So is apology.

WAR AND MUSIC AND VIDS TO GO WITH

14751475 views22 comments33 favs

I. Europa How else to begin but with Gustave Holst's Mars--the gods waging war in romantic twilight as drumbeats and cannons blast swathes in the gloaming and glory awaits in the halls of black smoke. A visual perhaps:…

The Mutes

14751475 views66 comments33 favs

Some people are born that way, and some people do things to themselves that keep them from talking. Like opening up a soda bottle with your mouth.

Veined and Green

14751475 views33 comments33 favs

Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

Is This Seat Taken?

14751475 views22 comments22 favs

A single woman should regard every train ride as an opportunity, I once read in one of those “How to Find A Boyfriend” books. “When boarding the train, don't take the first available seat,“ the author advised. “Walk through all the cars…