Most read stories

The Story

13851385 views33 comments11 fav

He pronounced the Afrikaans word with the vowel sound like the vowel in dour. It meant box, but it also meant cunt.

this never happened and yet i tell myself it did each morning

13851385 views99 comments22 favs

i watch my mind not wanting to touch the vanished rusty notes remain objects of consciousness heaven and hell inside us each moment birds fly through mental speech dark garden rain olive green cool breath of betrayal siempre mixed with greed awakens…

Father Dunne's School for Wayward Boys #6

13851385 views1313 comments88 favs

Instead, we found his red-inked list of boys who would never be saved,

Icehouse

13851385 views55 comments44 favs

It was noon and cloudless when I pulled over next to the icehouse, wedged in the X formed by two dirt roads.

Birthmark

13851385 views11 comment11 fav

She sat down in the big soft chair in front of his desk. “In your religion you believe in past lives, right?” “Yes, reincarnation is a tenet of the Hindu faith.” He replied. “As Catholics, I think we believe that only Jesus had the power to come

We Are Bad Poets

13851385 views11 comment00 favs

Fuck love :)

Table for One

13841384 views22 comments11 fav

He keeps re-reading the menu but knows already how it ends..

Afterglow

13841384 views77 comments33 favs

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

leave the dog, take the cannoli

13841384 views1818 comments88 favs

he who laughs last is probably a dumbass fuck

In A Lightning Storm, Sheep Run Through Barbed Wire

13841384 views44 comments33 favs

I used to fear things. The lonesome wind come through the clapboards. Dry hillsides rustling. My own skin in the summer heat. Rattlers. Lurking. Abandoned coal pits. Pa said I was afraid of desolation. I didn't know what he meant by that. How can you be…

a walk on the moon

13841384 views00 comments00 favs

I know I used to say I’d rather walk on the moon with my own rapacity. And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth. But it was a lie, if you want to know the truth. That is only so much hot balloon air, puffed up in the chest,

Bus Ride Through SF

13841384 views44 comments44 favs

Bud Light, B. O. and Freeloader Heaven, they step onto the back of the bus without a cent We pass by the Karma Wash but no one gets off the bus We pass by the Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen where we witness a crowd swarming over a ch

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 9

13841384 views22 comments22 favs

The Third Defenestration happened during the Soviet era, by the apparatchiks. The only thing that saved the people from certain death after being thrown out of the window of the Prague Castle, was an enormous pile of horse shit below, or haufen mist, as t

Before Going to a Party You Will Not Be Attending

13841384 views44 comments44 favs

I planned to wear this shirt, / blue, black, and white stripes, / collar and pocket,

Fat Cats, Happiness and Laptop Love -- What I Learned From Magazines This Week

13841384 views44 comments44 favs

The Utah State Attorney General's office recently stated in a court filing that there is no constitutional right to marry a laptop.(Time, 6/19/17)Smartphones are spreading head lice.(New York, 7/10/17)People are less helpful when it's hot.(Time, 7/24/17)Online virtual…

~blackbird~

13841384 views33 comments22 favs

^ through a busted window in this desert…

The Glens of Angus

13841384 views44 comments11 fav

This is mine own country

The Ballad of the Headless Bunny

13841384 views11 comment11 fav

I stepped down on what looked like a mouse Bloody and lifeless outside of our house. I took bag in hand and prepared to grab it When I realized the thing was the head of a rabbit!

Universal

13841384 views22 comments11 fav

For the sake of convenience, we must assume that everything ugly is evil. Lightning rejuvenates. Sulfur preserves. The obvious solution is dismemberment. The ghost appears to Ludwig; “How can you destroy my creation?”

Every Step, and There Are Lots

13831383 views22 comments00 favs

Her plastic shopping bag brushes your leg. You look into it and all you see is a 2 liter of Coke, a bag of Lay’s potato chips and a package of Oreos. It’s so oddly touching, so purely American, that your heart breaks a little bit. You want to hug t

Proverbs of the Converted

13831383 views99 comments77 favs

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ticket

Lovers on the Lawn

13831383 views44 comments22 favs

One day, every girl I’ve ever slept with showed up on my lawn.

The Conversion

13831383 views11 comment00 favs

She became suited to herself only. She no longer tried in any way to fit, she fought the molds they created and kept moving in her own direction. Often forward, sometimes a bit backward, and she rightly scaled her own Mt. Olympus and there she sat with he

Contentions

13831383 views1717 comments99 favs

...a session/ of hide and seek/ among the syllables.

Benefit

13831383 views44 comments00 favs

I'm an artist, baby. We make our own rules.

Frenchie at the Fair

13831383 views1414 comments1313 favs

Frenchie hustled waffle irons.

Sitting On a Powder Keg - song

13831383 views44 comments44 favs

I just sit here thinking You’re cheating on me again It’s how you acted last time The same as it’s ever been Don’t wanna go ballistic What’s inside your head? Why don’t you just tell me Who’s been sleeping in that bed

Crumpled

13831383 views77 comments66 favs

We wanted so much to find ourselves in a beautiful world. It was, and is, but every inviting leaf has got another hidden dangerous precedent that must be surrendered to in order to survive to see another sunset with the ones you actually…

Measures

13831383 views22 comments00 favs

Pascal would let something slip now and then. He was sharp and spoke excellent English, with a beautiful Spanish accent. He corrected speech among the guys, but he exercised his lessons in grammar with an eloquence that fascinated all of us, not letting a

Long Division

13831383 views22 comments11 fav

This energy said, "Fuck it, I am going to be the fucking sun." In it’s language it sounded more like "Khershhhhhhh Hhhhhhhhhhh Zirshhhhhhh."