Most read stories

Youngish Professor, or Grad Student TA

14291429 views33 comments22 favs

Natty looking in his 2-tone shoes and argyle socks blue blazer with 3 gold buttons on each cuff pale yellow hemp or burlap necktie, of course with a blue shirt (never white!!) long mopish hair hanging on his forehead and a

The Tourists

14291429 views33 comments33 favs

He thought of his field trip from the previous year, of Prague’s museums, statues, squares, architecture, restaurants, and various modes of transport. The town offered none of these and surely no cinema, no crowds of people, not even an old church.

Conspiracy

14291429 views1313 comments99 favs

I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.

His Name is Chaos

14291429 views00 comments00 favs

Should probably be faster at the cash register

Richardson

14291429 views55 comments33 favs

What is golf?

Woman in a Film Running to Save Her Love

14291429 views33 comments44 favs

If she does not get to him in time, / all is lost.

Happy Birthday to Me

14291429 views22 comments22 favs

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

Half Awake in a Fake Empire

14291429 views00 comments00 favs

Cooking dinner for one in a city that isn’t my home. A beautiful city that I’m slowly losing interest in, just as I become a local. In a tiny apartment set in the most realistic part of town, I’ve turned the music up loud to drown out my thoughts.

Perilous Joy

14291429 views1717 comments77 favs

...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...

Story Story

14281428 views44 comments11 fav

It was one of those sweltering afternoons that San Diego endures only several times a summer. I'm riding on El Cajon Boulevard, with my friend John in his old Chevy pickup. John is a lifelong San Diego resident and fanatical Charger backer. He's talking up some…

Forever and a Day

14281428 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

Ghoster

14281428 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!

Dear Friend

14281428 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

Bones

14281428 views1515 comments77 favs

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

Falling

14281428 views22 comments11 fav

Sometimes when I fall I see a ...

Faces of Death Revisited

14281428 views1010 comments99 favs

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

Mercury Unbound - 5

14281428 views1616 comments55 favs

As the music concludes, I'm finally in control of my emotions . . .

Waves of Memory

14281428 views33 comments22 favs

"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."

Figures in Disquieting Landscapes

14281428 views1313 comments1010 favs

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

A Song To Lose Your Shoes To

14281428 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.

Exquisite Now

14281428 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…

Lost Keys

14281428 views44 comments11 fav

The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!

Jack

14281428 views44 comments00 favs

We’ve already agreed on a date when Jack posts some new pictures of himself. I have to swallow. Hard. In four days Jack’s become twenty years older! On Thursday, a boyish thirty-something was smiling at me from my PC. This Monday I find myself stari

crave

14281428 views44 comments33 favs

The look that warms.

The First Time

14271427 views1111 comments99 favs

The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…

Teeth - Yet Another Obsession

14271427 views00 comments00 favs

The teeth I want must hold significance. Like the quote, “it’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey,” for me, it’s the connection that I’ve had with someone and the story behind the lost tooth that interests me.

three gretchens

14271427 views22 comments00 favs

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

The Shopkeeper

14271427 views1212 comments88 favs

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

Query

14271427 views99 comments77 favs

time timed times time

Taking Leave

14271427 views44 comments22 favs

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