Most read stories

The $64,000 Question

13991399 views11 comment00 favs

One day over a hardscrabble dinner of gristly beef and lumpy mashed potatoes, his uncle looked up at him and said, “Kee-rist, boy, school’s gonna start any day now. And winter ain’t far behind. I can’t keep you here. We gotta figure out something for you.

Lost Keys

13991399 views44 comments11 fav

The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!

the first time I met Terry

13991399 views55 comments22 favs

I remember the first time I met the virgin, Terry (not Mary.) She was in the back seat of an old Plymouth convertible with its top down, jam-packed with raucous high school girls vying to see which one of them could be the most loud and obnoxious, and w

Sleeping Apes and Washing Dishes: What I Learned From Magazines This Week

13991399 views55 comments55 favs

Eat blueberries every day and you'll live to be a 92 year old mogul. Really.

On Unpredictability

13991399 views44 comments22 favs

All that have changed in me, I give to you now.

Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession

13991399 views00 comments00 favs

Billy liked dinosaurs. He played dinosaurs, collected dinosaur toys, drew pictures of dinosaurs, great shambling beasts of tooth and claw, whose passing shook the jungles and whose drooling jaws devoured figures not unlike his sisters. For birthdays and

Roger's Box

13981398 views22 comments00 favs

"I see flashing bright bacteria floating in the air," he replied, not bothering to think about the words. "I see puffs of smoke issuing from inappropriate objects. Fingertips. Baby carrots. Furniture... Oh, Christ," he seethed, arching again. "Get me some

Husband Googles Travel Zoo

13981398 views1010 comments88 favs

When you need a vacation...from everything.

Fargo

13981398 views22 comments22 favs

“What does it feel like to run, Thomas?” I yelled across the field. Thomas was so fast. I would never catch up to him. Even if I could run. He was so fast. …

Mankind vs. The Undertaker

13981398 views66 comments33 favs

Her boyfriend is into U.S. presidents and professional wrestling. He is reading biographies of both occupations and says this helps him to appreciate gray area, decisive action. Lives of great men, he explains.

Dear A. Lien (Letter Two)

13981398 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.

Lose the Baggage

13981398 views11 comment22 favs

I could be dead wrong.

The Mujahideen

13981398 views33 comments22 favs

Eighteen-year-old Svetlana Kabalevsky was now the widow of the poet Dmetri Kabalevsky, soon to be another widow-whore on the Moscow highway.

Grandma's Fingers

13981398 views55 comments66 favs

her hands twined up, as carved from stone, each to fit the other.

MOURNING FLOWERS

13981398 views00 comments00 favs

The gardens of Babylonare empty again.Kings and queens came back to the ancient desertto rise their childrenin the wise wilderness.But you can still heartheir hidin' laughingrunning throughthe mourning flowers.

Rechargeable Batteries

13981398 views00 comments00 favs

Was he really a Secret Service guy? No time to think now! Quick as lightning, Rachel bounded over the sleeping matron and sprinted up the aisle.

The Blush of Rose

13981398 views33 comments22 favs

Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.

The Ridgeline: Day 1

13981398 views11 comment00 favs

The first burned slowly in the distance. I built a small fire to keep warm. Snow covered the area as far as the eye could see. The sun burned bright in the sky above and the mountains disappeared onto the horizon. My gear had some wear and tear from t

The Autobiography of the Falsehoods Which Are Not Love

13981398 views88 comments77 favs

he wound up hating the woman he betrayed in his heart for betraying him in her body

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.5 - c.2

13981398 views00 comments00 favs

Emi paced back and forth, fixing her jacket out of nervousness. The cool breeze crawled around her skin and she shivered.

The Body in the Other Room

13981398 views1717 comments1111 favs

I couldn’t parse the grammar of her body nor decode the secret softness of her neck.

Terry, the virgin

13981398 views33 comments22 favs

Terry had an apartment not far from Lake Michigan, where we could stroll to one of the beaches. It was close to Lincoln Park. This was in the summer of 1966. We had to walk up to the fourth floor, and on those steamy hot Chicago summer nights in August,

Phyllis Shapely

13981398 views55 comments44 favs

In December of 2003, Daniel Arredondo succumbed to his years long battle with colon cancer. If the name is unfamiliar, you're not alone. He did not answer to the name Daniel Arredondo. For most of his life, from seventeen years old to the end, in fact, he went by the name…

13 imaginary friends

13981398 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…

The Arrival

13971397 views33 comments22 favs

On a certain level, everyone was relieved when it finally did happen. They had been waiting a long time for it. Finally, they could relax. There was no reason for anxiety anymore.

Genesters

13971397 views44 comments33 favs

There once was a lake skipping stone and it skipped, five times, the end... Ceiling fluorescents brilliant in the white space opened to the exterior of the Hog n' Bluster hero shop through the narrow glass front and shown out to the empty brick paved commons of…

Forever and a Day

13971397 views22 comments11 fav

Just an abnormal visit to the post office.

404

13971397 views22 comments33 favs

What? Hey, man WTF???

But Wait, There's More

13971397 views22 comments00 favs

A rock group named Stuck Gas Pedal. Another named Tweezer. A group of young punk-rockers wearing neckerchiefs named Mein Kampfire. But wait, there’s more. A song called “We Were Being Facetious,” co-written by them all. Lost Flyswatter. That

Ceremony

13971397 views11 comment00 favs

It was possible, she realized, to hope through hopelessness.