Most read stories

Pen Pals

14261426 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

14261426 views55 comments55 favs

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

Rain Typing

14261426 views33 comments22 favs

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

Richardson

14261426 views55 comments33 favs

What is golf?

Exquisite Now

14261426 views44 comments22 favs

In the exquisite now, I feel everything around me, in me, before and after, I think, I should call you, say goodnight, but I do not, choose instead to write this poem, as though I can capture the magic of what is happening between us in words, A…

The Humanists

14261426 views00 comments00 favs

“She’s very sick. She’s dying,” and he smoothed my hair along my neck. “It’s leukemia. A very rare type,” his hand reached my shoulder and stopped there. “She only has a few months.”

Laidlaw

14261426 views1010 comments77 favs

There were too many laws but not enough of the kinds she wanted. She wished for the right to go shopping. Then taste rather than disposable income or access to finance could distinguish people.

Flash Before Your Eyes

14261426 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

The Industrious Mice

14251425 views33 comments22 favs

I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!

Forever and a Day

14251425 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

Ghoster

14251425 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!

How We Fight

14251425 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,…

Taking Leave

14251425 views44 comments22 favs

A walled city doesn’t let you out any more easily that it has let you in earlier.

Bones

14251425 views1515 comments77 favs

Got something inside me hard as nails keeps me walking upright ain't never failed

“The Confession of the Sorcerer of Darkness”

14251425 views00 comments00 favs

A dark and mysterious account of an ancient traveler seeking arcane literature, and the miserable results to him after he receives what he sought.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.7 - c.2

14251425 views00 comments00 favs

Mayumi and Rumiko stood at the top of a hill into stone forest, with the town in view from a distance. The mist made a single path, safe for everyone to travel through. In the town, there were lights flickering everywhere, some areas in total darkness.

Faces of Death Revisited

14251425 views1010 comments99 favs

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

Global Arms - 2

14251425 views22 comments33 favs

While serving in government, she plotted to change it.

Conspiracy

14251425 views1313 comments99 favs

I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.

Two Takes on a Flickering Moth

14251425 views77 comments66 favs

Take 1. The Love Letter to an Unspoken Name Well we're beyond our appointed Moment now. We must step On what's left, alone, but That begs some explanation to These days that pinball between Stars and to the sad dreamers…

I Will Not Be That Woman

14251425 views66 comments66 favs

Not today. Even when the Isar rolls so cool and deep and I could wade and wade 'til sleep. Not today. When I have the tablets in a drawer in a box winking chalkily at me. Not today. When the church tower soars and it's bells toll out a seductive beat …

Into The Night

14251425 views22 comments11 fav

Under a conspiratorial moon… the shovel my silent partner… organ-less torso to the worms.

3 Poems Of Broken Hands And Lonely Drones

14251425 views11 comment11 fav

another lonely drone holding still

A Song To Lose Your Shoes To

14251425 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

14251425 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

14251425 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.

crave

14251425 views44 comments33 favs

The look that warms.

Dear Caddy

14241424 views55 comments44 favs

I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.

Dear Friend

14241424 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

Modern Teleology

14241424 views77 comments77 favs

little curly moustaches