Most read stories

Things Like This

14321432 views66 comments44 favs

I'm an older guy. She is still quite young. I tell her I may be too old but she giggles and tells me that she did the research and it said because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean no fire's in the stove. She proved it. Things like this. We excite ourselves,…

Great Books of the Western Bedroom

14321432 views33 comments22 favs

Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.

Pen Pals

14321432 views1414 comments1010 favs

Sitting together at Starbucks, we composed a long love letter which we've been mailing back and forth to each other, signing our name upon each receipt and returning it for the last nine months and it has grown to eighty seven pages, barely fitting in a shoe box.

philanthropy from a cardboard box + a detour to Han-shan

14321432 views55 comments55 favs

philanthropy corrugated with a smirk / printed aside every cardboard box and room / every cardboard house with every cardboard door.

Bubble Rap Blues

14321432 views55 comments00 favs

"The Chinese don't have no Mardy Grah, bitch."

His Name is Chaos

14321432 views00 comments00 favs

Should probably be faster at the cash register

Happy Birthday to Me

14321432 views22 comments22 favs

Happy Birthday to me. It takes just a second on waking to remember, It's June but it feels like December.

Then You May Have Complicated Grief...

14321432 views22 comments11 fav

......Based on an ad I heard on the radio from Mass. General Hospital in BostonHave you ever experienced death?Have you been in grief,past the cut off periodof six months?Has it affected your life?Has it strained relations with your wife?It is our beliefthat you…

three gretchens

14311431 views22 comments00 favs

The story of a second, a stone, and an android -- all curiously interrelated and all, coincidentally, named Gretchen

Two Weeks in a Dristan Land

14311431 views1212 comments99 favs

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

Nothing

14311431 views11 comment11 fav

I dream about the boy in The Neverending Story, the gate of mirrors, and the Nothing, a dark cloud that floats in the sky, takes away everything.

Killing Dennis Gauda

14311431 views44 comments33 favs

I killed him. I know you probably don't believe me, but it was an accident. I'll bet everyone in this room knows Dennis Gauda.... or should I say knew him? He was District Governor a while back. He also won quite a few speech contests. Yes... he's competition,…

Falling

14311431 views22 comments11 fav

Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Conversations with my brother

14311431 views1515 comments88 favs

Maybe it takes as much fortitude To forget As it does To remember.

The Ritz

14311431 views88 comments33 favs

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

Faces of Death Revisited

14311431 views1010 comments99 favs

He looks outside, sees everything disappearing like crumbing cookies into what appears to be a giant mouth.

Authenticity in a Time of Consolidation

14311431 views1919 comments1111 favs

Culture gives what it feels you deserve/ in the cul-de-sac of your time and place.

Dreamtime

14311431 views88 comments55 favs

The problem with drinking gin in the desert is that eventually there is no more gin but the desert is still there.

End of an Arabesque. Degas

14311431 views00 comments00 favs

Holding a bouquet of flowers wrapped in a tissue in one hand, a round shape that balances the round yellow burst of light that is her dress. While the flesh of her chest bulges forward and she balances as though in a holding pattern in flight.

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

14311431 views1313 comments1010 favs

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

Richardson

14311431 views55 comments33 favs

What is golf?

A Song To Lose Your Shoes To

14311431 views33 comments00 favs

You’ve got me standin’ on my knees, A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms, From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas And blind to open palms.

Everything but the Kitchen Sink

14311431 views55 comments11 fav

It starts with a letter, down the back of the couch, ending, ‘love, always.' I read only the kisses aimed at me - a firing line running off the page. How long has that letter hidden there? It secreted itself in a corner of the house…

Screaming Woman - Excerpt

14311431 views11 comment00 favs

Bree was mean as a bag of snakes and had done laid out most of the eligible bachelors in Culloden County at one time or another to the tune that at this point no man who’d heard of her wanted much truck with her.

Flash Before Your Eyes

14311431 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

Taken from 'A Story of Me And You'

14301430 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…

Forever and a Day

14301430 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

The Shopkeeper

14301430 views1212 comments88 favs

His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.

I Am Not Like All The Rest: Funny Lines From Online Dating Profiles

14301430 views1010 comments99 favs

After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…

Dear Friend

14301430 views44 comments11 fav

Dear Friend: As a visitor to Wonderland in the past, you are truly among our most treasured friends. It is the enthusiasm for whimsy such as yours that spurs us to continue to provide perplexing chaos for which we are so widely esteemed, the better to