Most read stories

The Reward of Work is Harder Work

13521352 views1010 comments88 favs

If you stop, you starve// and they just offer what you do/ to others, starved already,/ and schooled, as you, in servitude.

JOSEPH YOUNG

13521352 views55 comments00 favs

JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…

5 Poems In The Shape Of Other Poems

13521352 views00 comments11 fav

the things we will accomplish, the things we will leave to others

Dina Goes to Belfast

13521352 views00 comments11 fav

Dina was a woman obsessed. She had endured a three hour layover in Chicago and another four in Heathrow for this. (The flight she had enjoyed with a few glasses of red and an HGTV show about plumbing that she could watch again and again.) She had staked out this corner of…

Blanket of Ivory

13521352 views44 comments00 favs

Diane couldn’t shake her compunction. Though eight and a half months had passed, nothing felt right anymore. Their conversation played out in her dreams, and stilled her during everyday errands.

One in the Numberless Series of Requiems

13521352 views1212 comments99 favs

We perform our chosen duty— naming/ beauties and atrocities within

Bearable

13521352 views00 comments00 favs

"Don't be dense."

The Wedding

13521352 views66 comments55 favs

Anneliese inserted one of her crystal drops in Hymen's left ear and kept her left earring in. For a quarter, she bought a handful of cashews and plopped them on a red napkin.

DRA

13511351 views00 comments00 favs

DRA musical - 1942… Open on the General Jackson crowded with Marines, headed to (Tennessee Base),at the front of the ship, young men laughing, unrealistic military dreams/wordless chatter... LET IT RIDE .. main character is a marine en route to base...Solo verse,…

Transgression

13511351 views22 comments11 fav

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

Masquerade II

13511351 views1414 comments44 favs

. . . once you start reading and thinking about what he's saying, it's like looking at the reflection of your soul in a mirror . . .

The Tiger Who Jumped Over the Moon

13511351 views88 comments77 favs

Lord knows we all tried to stop him from doing it. You're crazy we said. This makes you look like a lunatic. They'll hunt you down in even heavier droves now. You've upset their delicate memories. I tried to stop him. That's cow territory my friend…

Into the Mirror

13511351 views22 comments00 favs

Her eyes still fixed on him as if to whisper her concerns of fidelity.

Black Friday Crime Scene

13511351 views55 comments33 favs

Her name was Christine and she was nailed to the cross of their lust and their greed, and their vengeance

Off Shoots

13511351 views22 comments22 favs

My name is Lassie.

Psycho Logic Deregulation

13511351 views66 comments33 favs

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

Random Little Linguistic Discharges

13511351 views1717 comments77 favs

Eat the Body/ Drink the Blood/ Perfect the sacrifice,

Your Guide to a WASP Bar Mitzvah

13511351 views66 comments00 favs

“The first thing you must remember,” Polly tells the Levensons, “is that every penny you spend on your guests is that much less you can spend on your horses.”

Suicide Consulting Hotline

13511351 views77 comments66 favs

We exist to facilitate/ successful conclusions of hopeless lives.

a girl's mane

13511351 views22 comments11 fav

Wild bore the wind down on me, coming out of the heavens that turned around the stars of the evening. The longing and the appetite at work in the body, all tickling to open a girl’s mane, gaping, health-giving crossroads to the body. Hail and farewell t

Perdita in pieces

13511351 views55 comments55 favs

Perdita's confusing profusion of parts makes it impossible to know which way up she goes.She flutters beneath the camera's shuttered stare, …

There is a Sadness

13511351 views88 comments88 favs

now I cannot shake. I am only one person. Thereis a sadness I cannot understand. Fathom. Control. Manipulate. Detonate.I used to kiss her tenderly. Do you think this sadness is wise to us? Don't point that gun at me! There is a sadness. There is another war. Iam…

Metaphor Therapy

13511351 views66 comments44 favs

"Psst! You can't hide behind a broken dream.The gardenia's hint that fills your air with her perfumed scent will remain like a residue on your mind. I wish there were an antidote I could share with you, but alas, my apothecary drawer is empty. Many times it's been my…

In an Irish pub with a lot of oiled wood

13511351 views11 comment11 fav

“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”

Yet More from The Chronicles of His Demise

13511351 views1616 comments88 favs

The Muse//has used/ me up

Cabinet

13511351 views44 comments11 fav

In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet

Weather Forecasting

13511351 views33 comments33 favs

By the time the forked tongue of the flag extended flat like it was pressed between two of my thick volumes on weather forecasting, the man was still walking with his nose glued to the ground.

Story to Forget

13501350 views00 comments00 favs

The white Boeing 747, all three hundred and sixty eight seats of it, prepared to depart from Johannesburg Airport. Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease. I offered a friendly nod to the…

The Phosphorescent French Fry

13501350 views00 comments00 favs

She's speaking again, this time in whispers. Her head is shrinking in on itself. If there is a way to save her I'm not aware of it.

COD: Extreme Hunger

13501350 views00 comments00 favs

Mid-laugh, Mr. Adams caught himself. His eyes welled, flooded with guilt for chuckling at his son's funeral.