Most read stories

Hollywood Forever

14391439 views55 comments44 favs

Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone crack open an Old Bushmill’s and offer John Huston a pull.

Exordium

14391439 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.

Because we cannot know

14391439 views99 comments66 favs

Because we cannot know, we keep walking, keep getting up each morning, feeding the cat, drinking coffee. Because we cannot know I'm drinking coffee that morning in Thailand, not on the beach but just off, because there is only one spot where you can get real coffee,…

The Budweiser Sign and the Ghosts of Saturday Night

14391439 views77 comments22 favs

It waited and witnessed the seasons complete a grouping and form a year. Then it watched them do it again. Winter, spring, summer, fall. It watched from the inside of course. But it could see. Big sliding glass doors and long and wide windows stayed the course also, way…

The Sound Invisible

14391439 views44 comments11 fav

“Behold!” cried the Lord, on a late September morning,

(On Tuesday...)

14381438 views66 comments33 favs

On Tuesday, he wears his suit to the cafe. Of course they'll let him pay! Of course. Under the table, his wife accepts their wadded bills.

Aftermath

14381438 views44 comments22 favs

They waited not a moment longer than was necessary But moved right in and Began their loathsome ch

Suicidal god

14381438 views55 comments22 favs

My dog’s on suicide precautions. I had to take away all her eating utensils--even the chopsticks. So now she has to eat directly from the bowl. It doesn’t seem to slow her down.

Quatrains Written on Stolen Time

14381438 views88 comments66 favs

It is the fragrance of decay/ as paint, polymers and dyes/ outgas molecules of themselves

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 17

14381438 views33 comments22 favs

Friday night in Little Italy is a big night.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 32

14381438 views55 comments44 favs

—You know, Angelique, said Elaine Aster, dabbing her lips with a napkin, I’ve opened a new gallery in Paris.

Strangers on a Train

14381438 views99 comments55 favs

I'm putting makeup on my face. The woman next to me is reviewing legal briefs.

Here Comes the Sun/ There Goes the Moon

14381438 views66 comments66 favs

still have the yellow rose that I did not throw into the grave.

Stars and Smiles

14381438 views77 comments44 favs

Older than a star I am

50 Minute Fight

14381438 views11 comment00 favs

Snap! Dylan’s arms flung forward as the rod bent toward the ocean. “Holy God! What did I snag?

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 43

14381438 views66 comments33 favs

—Have you ever fired a gun?

Eighth Wonder of Mississippi?

14381438 views00 comments00 favs

Lula’s fried chicken should be served on the hem of Jesus’s robe rather than out of a styrofoam box. It’s so good that I kept glancing at the little tray on the steam table, hoping to be hungry again, ready to yank pieces out of the grasp of strangers, to

Famine

14381438 views66 comments00 favs

To be perfectly honest, I was lousy at my job. Or at least most aspects of it. The typing wasn’t a problem: I can get up to a hundred words a minute on a good stretch of unbroken text, and I’m pretty accurate. I even edited as I went, fixing passiv

Four: Of Moths, Poets, and Streambanks

14381438 views11 comment11 fav

“And what kind of man would prefer all these dusty old books to my physical form? Who would memorize archaic incantations, when he could be whispering in my ear? Why search for the ancient splendors of metaphor, when one could be searching for the ...

Lockdown

14381438 views66 comments22 favs

That son of a bitch locked me in the house again. Come over and knock in a window. One of them by the roses; he won’t see. Be a dear.

Cats

14381438 views22 comments22 favs

Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.

Diet Plans

14381438 views22 comments11 fav

She positioned the mouse cursor over the word Bikini and double clicked. The hard drive of the ageing work PC chugged into life as an Excel document dragged itself onto the screen.

Coffee and Cream F**k the Shit out of Me

14381438 views33 comments22 favs

Of course they (the cof­fee and cream) were lovers, chem­i­cally made for one another, warmly explor­ing their part­ner's par­ti­cles with the pas­sion of a first kiss.

This Old Man

14381438 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.

Broken Night

14381438 views00 comments00 favs

Could I really seduce and rob a total stranger -- just on a dare?

New Kid

14371437 views66 comments66 favs

Wild are the woods tucked in the backyards, tame the front lawns of green, manicured, with a hedge and a few flowers, a well-maintained driveway, and a garage door.

The Date

14371437 views66 comments55 favs

Everything was cool until she used the phrase, "five million dollar home."

Fargo

14371437 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. …

Struggling with Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

14371437 views33 comments11 fav

No one takes me seriously because I am an idiot.

Afterglow

14371437 views77 comments33 favs

The drone of radio seeps into the car’s back seat… I hear only bits and pieces of information –