Most read stories

“Honestly, I’m Not a Fan of Your Poetry”

13761376 views22 comments33 favs

I will admit it. // I cannot write poetry / to save my life—

13 circles of Hell revealed to the Bird King in a series of hallucinations caused by medicine for a urinary tract infection

13761376 views66 comments55 favs

1. The Kingdom of MaggotsBillions of tiny naked bald men wriggle and squirm through a derelict mannequin factory.2. The Sea of KnivesThe crests of waves slice and slash. Maimed mermaids wail.3. The Eye MoonEnvious mirrors ape the sun. An astronaut falls forever into open…

Red Lady Octopus

13761376 views11 comment11 fav

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

Shiny Crimson Trails

13761376 views55 comments33 favs

only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red

Tilt-a-Whirl

13761376 views44 comments44 favs

the carnival ride hurtles the spinning man over canyons of light and barkers & streams of cotton candy girls

Upper East

13761376 views11 comment00 favs

As the 5 train gained momentum away from Fulton Street, Helen took her seat with the alertness and suspicion of someone who had spent the day negotiating prices with dirty fishmongers.

Passing a Church

13761376 views33 comments55 favs

Does God feel the same way / whenever you practice your indifference toward me

Anger

13761376 views55 comments33 favs

Well, now it has fallen away some but I felt better about it when it was raging

The Parade

13761376 views99 comments77 favs

I see them walking. They pass right by my house. If I’m outside, I sit down on our porch and watch the parade. Sometimes I watch them out of a front window.

Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 15: In Which The Damage Is Contained

13761376 views00 comments00 favs

He stood sopping in front of the mirror, dripping onto the limp puddle of clothing on the floor. He needed a haircut. He needed a shave. He needed to get rid of the two-fucking-inch white hair inside the helix of his right ear. He plucked it—and all the h

Suspicion

13761376 views00 comments00 favs

A woman confronts her suspicions about her husband's fidelity.

Loch Traignarry Light

13751375 views66 comments44 favs

The Traignarry Light Preservation Society meets monthly, and welcomes visitors.

On an Iceberg of Words

13751375 views88 comments66 favs

She cut me adrift On an iceberg of words And words melt As you know Looks like we may have Gone out on the limb A little too far without A toe-hold on Reality Doesn’t it? But I saw the headlines: Cows Bound for Slaughterhouse Make

Five Million Yen: Chapter 59

13751375 views44 comments22 favs

Girolamo Dente was nodding off in his studio at Découvrir Art when he heard the alarm.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 2

13751375 views22 comments11 fav

Ben exited the uptown Broadway Local at 103rd and oriented himself.

Flesh

13751375 views44 comments44 favs

Here’s to flesh:

On the Anniversary of My Grandfather's Passing

13751375 views22 comments00 favs

What I remember about my grandfather were his fart jokes. When he wasn't telling us kids about how young David defeated the mighty Goliath or how Saul the pharisee humbled himself to become Paul the Apostle, he was telling us about the baby burp that begg

I Liquidate My Assets

13751375 views55 comments55 favs

My businessman does as his nature allows him. He is so cute. All day long he makes deals. He is on his phone most of the time. He raises his voice. “Fuck those fuckers, just do it,” is what he says. My businessman hedges risk on his investments by keeping…

Tomorrow

13751375 views22 comments11 fav

You hold me now, and pay attention. Everything is new.

The Dryad

13751375 views11 comment00 favs

So into the woods we went, hoping to open a portal into the netherworld of make believe. I had a feeling we would see nothing, but she believed in me. At the very least I would spend a few very nice days backpacking in the wilderness.

Intimate Dialogues - "Ledge"

13751375 views11 comment11 fav

It was a mildly windy day of the working week in the financial district of the city—the bright morning sun was out—when a security guard was called to the fifteenth floor to deal with a disruption. “This way.” Someone pointed to a desk. At the desk

A Deal With Tomorrow

13751375 views33 comments11 fav

I suppose I'd rather Tomorrow be heroic. It would make the passing of time less villainous.

Write me a Will

13751375 views44 comments44 favs

Write me a Will you laughing boy,

I Fall in Love Too Fast

13751375 views44 comments22 favs

It was Wednesday, the papers had a food section that day, so the gap-toothed news hawker at the mouth of Winter Street would yell out “Foozection! Foozection!”

End Time

13751375 views1414 comments1010 favs

and you fall down.

Mirrors/srorriM

13741374 views99 comments66 favs

It's weird to be here. I wonder if you are here too. You'd probably say oh that was years ago. And you would be right. But I like the things we believed in then. Some of them I still do. You're old I guess. You were so pretty and golden in your…

things to know about the people parked along the road that runs through Humboldt Park: part 20

13741374 views00 comments00 favs

I traced the vein that rose in her temple when she got angry all the way along her body until it ashed out varicosely on her smooth calf.

the open road

13741374 views44 comments44 favs

There are moments in life where it's like you're driving late at night and you should be on your way home but really you're just rolling along aimlessly through the city streets when suddenly you turn a corner and realize the road is open and empty for miles to come, a…

WHO'S RICH?

13741374 views00 comments00 favs

she flips you a smile and a white plastic menu, and all the blood in your head, and upper body rushes to your crouch, and god-all- mighty, space aliens from the planet Vanna White could be landing in their unnumbered hoards in the parking lot, and all

Frankenstein (In Three Sentences)

13741374 views00 comments00 favs

I made a man of men. He made a man of me, the way all men are finished, in tragedy and sorrow. Together, we make a story, for other men, brothers and sisters.