Most read stories

Stars & Fireflies

14201420 views11 comment00 favs

For weeks I hadn’t been able to think straight, waiting to lay vision on those majestic, swooning breasts.

The After-Sex Song

14201420 views66 comments22 favs

After sex he would get on his old refurbished upright piano and always play that same song. We came to know it as the After-Sex Song. It was really quite lovely, and touching. I think it made us all feel better around that building. Yeah, I remember t

hush

14201420 views1111 comments88 favs

every timeyou openyour mouthan angel fallsinto a vat of whiskyshut ityou're fucking up heaven2013 - Rene

Rain Typing

14201420 views33 comments22 favs

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

Untitled Haiku from Japanese Game Show by JANEY SMITH

14201420 views11 comment11 fav

It's a haiku. It's its own snippet.

Strawberry Swirl

14201420 views22 comments11 fav

Keisha selected a strawberry swirl cupcake from the waiter's tray, so pretty, from the hottest, coolest, newest patisserie. Moist strawberrylishious cake, swirly pink frosting, sprinkles. Keisha was one lucky lady, scoring a bizdev gig at recession-proof…

Never Said

14201420 views00 comments00 favs

We're at the Park Diner. My dad Tommie is sitting across from me. He looks haggard, tired. His skin is pasty and washed-out. He's not talking, so I'm not talking either, but it doesn't matter because it's hanging there between us.Cancer.Motherfucker.“Don't look so…

Jack

14201420 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

Un Americano

14201420 views1818 comments1414 favs

His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.

This Old Man

14201420 views22 comments00 favs

“Have I told you this one before?” I can’t think of one he hasn’t told me, but saying so won’t stop him. I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay.

Perilous Joy

14201420 views1717 comments77 favs

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

The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist

14201420 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.

In The Place Between - Part 2

14191419 views22 comments00 favs

One day a girl with blond hair was walking along the fence on the other side. There were just a handful of us left and I was the only one to notice her. I watched her. She did not see me. The next time I saw her, I went to the fence. I thought she might y

Teeth - Yet Another Obsession

14191419 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.

Alice White Loves Me Because

14191419 views88 comments44 favs

She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.

How We Fight

14191419 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,…

Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 5: In Which Lymph Nodes Are Involved

14191419 views11 comment00 favs

Astrid did not smoke. Astrid did not drink. Astrid was not overweight. Astrid did not live a sedentary lifestyle; her whole life, aside from shopping, was working out. Astrid had no history of breast cancer or other female cancers in her family. Astrid di

Taking Leave

14191419 views44 comments22 favs

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

Indentured Servitude

14191419 views33 comments22 favs

"I’m wearing a white sundress with little strings tied at the shoulders, sheer white panties, and a lace push up bra." It sounded good, sexy, likable. The kind of outfit a girl he’d fall in love with would wear- if he was prone to love, that is. "That sou

An Uncertain Age -- Chapter One

14191419 views00 comments00 favs

Where was my real soul mate, I wanted to know, and why were there no twitchy children on my lap, and how had I been so dumb to believe that beauty's currency would never run out? So, Paris....

Conspiracy

14191419 views1313 comments99 favs

I was convinced that enemy bombers were on the way.

Olfactory

14191419 views22 comments11 fav

Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths

Woman in a Film Running to Save Her Love

14191419 views33 comments44 favs

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

Exordium

14191419 views00 comments11 fav

Overhead cranes balance ordinance from one end of the palatial enclosure to the other. There are robots, high-voltage, force-fields…more than a hundred ways someone could get hurt. I looked back again…She was gone.

Flash Before Your Eyes

14191419 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

Strange Humidity

14181418 views22 comments11 fav

The kitchen is full of old girlfriends. I avoid them. They are munching on cheddar and sharing stories I'm sure I don't want to hear.

The Sentence

14181418 views00 comments00 favs

Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?

Two Weeks in a Dristan Land

14181418 views1212 comments99 favs

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

Cold/Warm

14181418 views66 comments33 favs

I wear boots over bare legs feigning ignorance To the coming storms, the snow the ice the cold

Fairy Tale

14181418 views44 comments33 favs

Ey’, it’s where I followed him down