Most read stories

Cats

14701470 views1414 comments99 favs

and you imagine euthanizing them if what she says is true, that she is leaving them to you in her will.

Bar at East Capitol Road

14701470 views33 comments44 favs

My friend, drunk, spoke to me / outside a bar where we hung out; / and his eyes were red from tiredness,

Forever KAP

14701470 views99 comments77 favs

She mustn't...

Neural Tones

14701470 views2121 comments1010 favs

--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery." --"Well, you can't have everything." --"No? I heard otherwise."

WikiGreen (a semi-found poem)

14701470 views11 comment11 fav

Green is the color of emeralds, jade, and growing grass. In the continuum of colors of visible light it is located between yellow and blue. Green is the color mostShades of green desireIn the Category: Shades of green Green politics meet…

Blank Inside

14701470 views11 comment11 fav

She remembers the days when she could have purchased every card in the store and found the words to fill them all.

Breaking News

14701470 views1212 comments1010 favs

We are our own pathogens.

The Cure for Cancer

14701470 views99 comments77 favs

Thus, more people can drown// and leave their bones

TBT

14701470 views1111 comments1010 favs

Back then we used to dance slowly to Sam Cooke's “You Send Me” on your parquet floors, whispering about planting our vegetable garden, planning to seed the lawn with centipede grass, promising to count all the red cars that came down the street.

Transgression

14691469 views22 comments11 fav

I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.

Every Step, and There Are Lots

14691469 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

The Officer Gets Breakfast

14691469 views22 comments11 fav

The officer’s eggs and bacon rested on the asphalt amid shattered ceramic and boot heels.

Man On The Run

14691469 views00 comments00 favs

Don't slow down, he said, time grows shorter every minute. So you pretended to stay young or cheated on your marriage or forgot to watch your children growing up, and still never found someone who could understand you.

Cheese

14691469 views1212 comments77 favs

When exactly does cheese go bad? it simply does not, I say.

Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising (Parts IV - VI)

14691469 views44 comments33 favs

IV. Upwards, into the white eye rising, There is will, to stay, yet stays no will to be. Come,…

Excerpts from 'Dispatches from the Front: My Life in NE Portland—diary by JENA RACHEL ROCKWELL (year 08)'

14691469 views00 comments00 favs

I'm getting self-righteous here, Dear Reader . . . [hey! wait a second! this is my diary! what are you doing, looking at it, dude! Hit the road! Scram! Vamoose!]

The Mouth Is A Swell Place To Invent Things

14691469 views33 comments22 favs

Yesterday I saw Marco Polo getting a tattoo on East Olive. He was practicing Mandarin Chinese with the tattoo artist who was also Chinese. He got a yin yang symbol on his bicep. He looked to the east and saw the hills lift themselves into sky. He grimaced

Birding

14691469 views55 comments44 favs

Even mockingbirds are scarce;

Hooves on the Sand

14681468 views00 comments00 favs

It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.

Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)

14681468 views00 comments00 favs

People act, today, as if there were no such thing as Death - i.e. they "psychotically" reify the notion that we "live on" in our work or more pointedly/poignantly in our offspring and in society qua Creation. This tendency was half present in the old Greeks - the …

Invisible Vestibules

14681468 views66 comments44 favs

Sometimes the wind comes across the fields and you would swear that it can be known. Going along the one lane there I look out and see those vast spaces and then refocus on to closer on. Swinging the truck into a side road that goes far and far and then left, I pull into…

Note To Self

14681468 views55 comments44 favs

Along with Bad Bunny comes the reckless dancing the ambulance chases and the long, drawn-on faces

Begonia {part eight}

14681468 views00 comments00 favs

Like a scroll spinning swiftly before his eyes, he deduced that the tracks around him could have been left by nothing but a dragon. “Father God, protect her,” he said as the gravity of Isabella’s situation hit him.

In the Tent of Princess Citronella

14681468 views00 comments00 favs

While sipping Earl Grey tea in the tent of Princess Citronella, I could hear the nightime burping of several camels outside trying to settle down. A slight breeze entered in through an opened flap and gently vibrated a piece of paper the Princess was handing me. A dog…

20,000 Years of The Apartment For The Dead

14681468 views55 comments33 favs

He saw places that he hadn't thought existed. He found his analog from 17,000 years ago praying inside of a white pyramid in Kathmandu, and saw how the fireballs being catapulted through the air outside were stopped in midair by a beam coming from the top

The Gift Garden (Extract)

14681468 views33 comments33 favs

Now I hear a woman's voice. It sounds familiar, like I know her, but in my daze it is slightly distorted, like I am underwater and she is calling to me beneath the waves. She tells me not to be afraid. Her words are calming; they soothe away the panic and confusion. I…

Song: Nope, music by Tim Young, lyrics by Jerry Ratch

14681468 views22 comments22 favs

paste into browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSKsjOTCFU&feature=em-upload_owner

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 12

14681468 views44 comments22 favs

Frank was happy to leave the art show and take the train back to SoHo.

Face to Face

14681468 views1010 comments66 favs

The face had become a chilling death mask.

Red Lady Octopus

14681468 views11 comment11 fav

I hand one of them the octopus and run out of the room.