Most read stories

Refer Madness

11671167 views00 comments00 favs

There is an old Indian story which says that if a person inhales basil fumes, then scorpions will grow in the inhaler's brain. We have basil growing all over our garden, so this explains the absolutely stinging sensation I feel in my cerebellum after cutting the basil hedge…

Too Much Information

11671167 views44 comments00 favs

He couldn’t dredge up a single memory about the sex.

Happy Christmas to my quantum mechanic-

11671167 views77 comments77 favs

this elegant silver wrench/ which from the opposite side/ becomes a golden Phillips-head

even dead body

11671167 views00 comments00 favs

I'm a jogger of these parts, but I've yet to discover a dead body, or even dead body parts, or worse yet, discover that my parts will be discovered by some unfortunate jogger.

Alice Can Derail You in 3/5ths of a Second

11671167 views2121 comments1111 favs

She connects to you via snarling vines & worm-woven tunnels. Drops Roman numerals

The Story

11671167 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.

33 and a 1/3

11671167 views33 comments22 favs

I've been in Tucson two days, and so far most of my conversations with my father have taken place while I crane my neck and squint into the sun. I scream up, he screams down. He needs to fix the leaky roof before the rainy season, he says.

Violet Hour

11671167 views55 comments22 favs

“My name is Violet,” I add. I am trying to stop lying. Going without cigarettes has been easier.

Dear Mei

11671167 views11 comment11 fav

I planned and planned. I followed the veterinarians around and I took vials of panda tranquilizers when they were not looking, and it was often that they forgot to look. The earth kept shaking, they were hungry, and many did not know what had become of th

Nineveh

11671167 views00 comments00 favs

My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete, until I learned of love in your embrace.

Dust to Dust

11671167 views44 comments33 favs

He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.

Betsy

11671167 views11 comment11 fav

Lester walked back into the house. He was hungry but didn’t know what he wanted to eat. Really, he couldn’t remember how to fix anything he wanted. He walked over to turn on the television, but couldn’t find the on/off button. Surely the damn thing had an

A meditation on mint tins

11661166 views33 comments00 favs

And I am reminded of river eyes: The summer we slumbered, Like mummies in the sand

It's the New Age of Bullshit

11661166 views55 comments55 favs

They’re young and haughty. 27’s still a long ways off. They read about the famous, not the dead. Dusty dragonflies will not land upon them, and they are really only in love with the dishwasher. Now there’s a problem. Poetry is dead,

But Wait, There's More

11661166 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

What's Done, What's Left to Do

11661166 views22 comments00 favs

When she was just a little bit younger, Dana wanted to be known around town as something other than the girl who used up all the machines at the laundromat with her little brothers' Spiderman underwear and her grandpa's pants soiled with God-knows-what. Something…

Dramarama and Acid Wash Jeans

11661166 views00 comments22 favs

Looking down you wonder, when did I eat pineapple? and Am I really this awesome or am I a facsimile of something that really sucks, even if it's that 'it's so bad it's good' kind of thing? Nope, it's just bad.

Juicy | In the Umbra

11661166 views11 comment11 fav

He licks his lips and mouths the air, salivating, unashamed of his propensity for the round, pink grapefruit, the almost egg-shaped oranges, the firm, juicy tangerines.

Psycho Logic Deregulation

11661166 views66 comments33 favs

" . . . the government works for the aliens now, taking over the world. That's why everything's so screwed up."

The Perfect Command

11661166 views22 comments11 fav

He stood in front of her. They stood eye to eye. "You aren't supposed to look me in the eye. If I were anyone else you would be smacked down on the ground right now. Treat me as you would a lover, your master."

Caitlin's Boots

11661166 views11 comment11 fav

A horn honks, brakes squeal, Chloe’s screaming, pulling at her. She’s lying on the sidewalk. Her shin hurts. Her knee. Chloe kneels beside her. Ring of kids staring. I’m good, she says. I’m good.

The Ridgeline: Day 1

11661166 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 old man in the window is probably scarier than he looks.

11661166 views00 comments11 fav

It loomed -- unavoidable.

The Judge's Wife Part 3

11661166 views44 comments22 favs

Everything clicked.

Syntax Connections

11661166 views33 comments44 favs

Consider this. Only a sentence ago we were complete strangers, oceans of time, distance and thought between us.

Sad without Tears

11661166 views11 comment00 favs

Sometimes, to be sad, you don't need tears.

Having

11661166 views33 comments22 favs

I guess it was, you know, a daze thing: He, lightly drunk, turning red in parts of his head, in his cheeks mostly, and his chest, to which my eyes were drawn because of his v-neck douchebag shirt; and I, sleepy beyond belief, sustained like a zombie only

You Don't Need To

11661166 views00 comments00 favs

You need only one who notices.

In The Place Between - Part Three

11661166 views22 comments00 favs

“I do not know if you can hear me, or if you can talk to me. Some people do not believe in people like you, you know, spirits, ghosts or whatever you are. I do. I know you are here because of what happened here.” I could not speak. I did not feel I could.

In Which Mad Dog Kicks French Women's Bony Butts

11661166 views11 comment00 favs

If Mad Dog were interrogated by female U.S. forces in a combat-riven no-woman’s-land to see if he was really an American, he couldn’t name the most recent WNBA champion.