Most read stories

If You See Something, Say Something

13431343 views11 comment11 fav

You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.

Cube of Boxes

13431343 views33 comments22 favs

...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.

Old Shoes for Stranded Soles

13431343 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 Mutes

13431343 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.

Resolution

13431343 views55 comments66 favs

You say you want a resolution Well, I got one Let's start with nothing at all No logic, no war, no whiskey or bombs

trixie

13431343 views99 comments77 favs

she had a chipped tooth...

Kicker

13431343 views22 comments22 favs

My grandma kicks field goals between her bedposts, again and again. My finger is sore from holding. She says that's all I'm good for. My finger is smudged with ink from writing my poems on her paper: half-moon rowboats, clouds like whales. She twisted my finger for …

I Will Not Be That Woman

13431343 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 …

Meet Cute

13431343 views00 comments00 favs

This had the unintentional effect of me picturing her in a tight white top and tiny orange shorts. From up close like this, I had clearly misjudged her earlier. She could definitely be more than the quirky best friend in my movie.

Mom at Night

13431343 views66 comments22 favs

Mom stayed up all night again Tending to her papers Pushing them around Trying to make order of the debts, the dreams and the obligations She couldn't get the columns to add up, So she shuffled them around some more and Rearranged the piles …

The Young Woman Swimming

13431343 views1111 comments55 favs

She stepped inlike ice alonecould save hershe dived,slicing the wavewith her body her fresh pony tailsubmergedlike a silk scarfthen swam moving thewater awaylike whirlpoolscould hold her buoyantly save her from the headachewhispering wordsThey had been there all…

Imagining the Reading as Effacement

13431343 views88 comments66 favs

What the spaces say// can be heard in the short/ and longer silences

Teeth - Yet Another Obsession

13421342 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.

Small Ghosts

13421342 views1111 comments44 favs

the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…

The Museum

13421342 views11 comment00 favs

Flicking through the sheets on her clipboard, Evelyn double checked the address with the mismatched numbers on the letterbox. Its mouth was a rusty, gaping grin like it had lost its dentures.

candy crush

13421342 views33 comments33 favs

1. we got off at the same stop. you approached me as i walked towards the stairs. i saw you looking at me, you said. i wasn't. i was looking at your magazine's cover. i don't remember what i said. i wanted to explore how to exist as myself however i wanted. i wanted to get…

Rain Typing

13421342 views33 comments22 favs

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

The Road

13421342 views44 comments44 favs

we were traveling on wasn't necessarily going to go careening over any hill as fast as it was smashing into the blunt end of another cloudless hole like a cartoon cat chasing a cartoon mouse. It was huge like a stone wall that had its own…

Woman in a Film Running to Save Her Love

13421342 views33 comments44 favs

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

13 imaginary friends

13421342 views66 comments66 favs

1. He had thirteen imaginary friends. They knew him better than his mother did.2. His imaginary friends were all born of a cat on the night of a blood moon.3. His imaginary friends had grey skin and red eyes, giving them the appearance of dead people. Their cheeks flushed…

two little water molecules

13411341 views11 comment11 fav

away into a gale then sleet he gurgled with eddie the pike till he yearned and twirled the oracle of spider gloss till he slipped alone into the sky to find her in a violet rain they splat together back to back on the rail in the rumbling tumbl

An Open Letter To Lance Armstrong

13411341 views00 comments00 favs

When I get my legs pumping, I’ll pop a spoke if I'm not careful. Massive fucking energy! And all that fat I was talking about? I don’t even really have that much of it, any of it really. My body fat is like one percent, which the doctors tell me isn’t

God's Personal Microphones

13411341 views44 comments44 favs

This is my melody. I will not shut it down for you, it will do that all on its own. Everyone knows this. I don't need you to go on holiday. Can't really get away from yourself. This is my color guard. It goes with the everything I am. I'm not sorry I grew…

Dear A. Lien (Letter Two)

13411341 views55 comments22 favs

You’ve got Wikipedia. Look them up: vagina and penis. What Wikipedia will not tell you, however, is the thousands of years of human anguish, and rapture, wrapped up in those two organs.

“The Confession of the Sorcerer of Darkness”

13411341 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.

The Other Side of the Wall

13411341 views33 comments22 favs

I’m glad they put the wall up. When it gets a little humid around here, I can smell those damn people.

Mercury Unbound - 5

13411341 views1616 comments55 favs

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

the total compiler

13411341 views33 comments33 favs

The idea of an infinite textual universe occurs in many places in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. The contexts and permutations of language, which others had held to be perhaps infinite (allowing themselves to use such an imprecise term), that…

Inside Out

13411341 views33 comments33 favs

Who hasn’t at some point of the day wanted to dredge up everything in your pocket just to see what it is.

Honey Bee Men

13411341 views66 comments44 favs

"...she's been seeming like she's been dreaming while awake lately..."