Most read stories

Airline Passengers! Is There A Right To Recline?

14301430 views11 comment11 fav

It's called the Knee Defender. But I prefer to think of it as the Schmuck Identifier.

Diagnosis

14291429 views1010 comments55 favs

I am studying the way/ dust bunnies emerge, grow/ and apparently reproduce.

Gummi Worms, Love, etc.

14291429 views22 comments11 fav

It was R who embodied love for me. We’d eaten gummi worms in the park, held them up to the sun, yellow and green and translucent. When we returned to her flat, they were everywhere. I’d never seen such a thing. They hung in the air, these gummi worms.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 2

14291429 views22 comments11 fav

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

Matchbox Car

14291429 views22 comments00 favs

Clatters and clatters ensued, and the splash destroyed all denial.

Dirty Deeds

14291429 views00 comments00 favs

Mustard stings the corner of his lips. He swipes it away with a finger, and looks closer at the hot dog. The piece of meat is ripped open like a sliced finger stuck in a doughy bandage

intensely interested (but repressing it)

14291429 views33 comments11 fav

whenever i see youit feels like birds are flyingin and out of my facemy head is ghost-like and birds flythrough iti want to hold the birds insidemy head and turn them intosex maniacs

the dreamer of eggs

14291429 views22 comments11 fav

How much sucking, faithlessly, can there be? The body being a night thing off which steam rises, that attracts like a magnet or loadstone, whose curls attract, whose ringlets or tufts of touched hair between the legs glory up the nightly watched miracle,

Rejected Titles for Beyoncé’s New Album...

14291429 views66 comments00 favs

Technique, Technique, Technique, Technique, TECHNIQUE!

Jack Noodle

14291429 views22 comments11 fav

So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something - I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee

No Exit

14291429 views88 comments66 favs

The bar was packed. Fascinated, Tom watched the shenanigans going on around him.

Model Home

14291429 views22 comments11 fav

In the living room of a model home, Mr. Jorgensen lived. He was a mannequin. He spent his days in display windows. He spent his commutes displaying the latest model cars.

Remembering Daffodils

14291429 views1717 comments77 favs

the burning thrusts/ of yellow in defiance of the frost

Musica

14291429 views44 comments22 favs

A sizzling as skin and sinew melt, fall away. "Scream if you need to scream, child." And I scream, and her song gains strength. The warmth of her around me. It is time.

Manifesto of ism

14291429 views22 comments22 favs

We walk though the streets of London, New York, Paris, Prague, Barcelona, Skegness, inhaling air heavy with metaphors, eyes set alight by the microscopic pyrotechnics of quotidian symbols hitherto debased by the outmoded conventions of a bankrupt civilisation decomposing in…

Quintet in a Natural Key

14291429 views1010 comments77 favs

I like the cool and dark beneath my rock./ It protects me from the glare and scorch/ of noonday sun and the chilling shadows/ of midnight moon.

How the 60's Ended

14291429 views44 comments11 fav

The Beatles on TV their last show together as a group and we all knew it smoking dope sitting around in large groups in living rooms across the universe they sang Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road knowing a man

Trying to remember something else, I recall supreme and utter solitude in a far off time and place

14291429 views1111 comments1010 favs

Before the war...

Ambassador of Nowhere

14291429 views66 comments55 favs

Before you tripped on the third rail, you were like any other: coat a shard of midnight-blue, eyes filled with gratitude but for nothing. You were a lost coyote on a snowy hill. With sad magnificence you wandered, terrorizing passengers who secretly wished to pat your…

Under My Skin

14291429 views44 comments22 favs

Story of my life: I was ready for a nightcap and she was just beginning her night.

COD: Extreme Hunger

14281428 views00 comments00 favs

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

What the Other is Thinking

14281428 views55 comments11 fav

Six months passed and the lovers decided speaking was no longer a necessary component in their relationship. They did this over breakfast, delicately spooning pink triangles of grapefruit into their mouths. Not a word spoken.

Off Shoots

14281428 views22 comments22 favs

My name is Lassie.

Another Life Altogether

14281428 views11 comment11 fav

{ a Triolet }A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life altogether ‘Twas little enough to talk about A smile, a wave as I stepped out And O' how after they did shout (Yet now we only talk of weather) A smile, a wave as I stepped out Into another life…

Startled by Towels

14281428 views22 comments11 fav

I woke up when the smoke alarm insisted. Either the curtains were on fire or I hadn't changed the battery.

9/11 Memories

14281428 views33 comments11 fav

She was just a small dog with a big heart.

Sanguine

14271427 views44 comments22 favs

Gripping the sink, head bowed, I let the blood gather on the rim of my nose, pooling for a moment, before its fleeting journey towards the basin.

MARTIAL LAW - LOCK DOWN IN PARADISE

14271427 views00 comments00 favs

Six just left to drive 8 hours thru the jungle. They’ll emerge in a year in military guerilla uniforms. One guy threw up getting in. A friend writes, “I started a Free Mike Todaro Campaign. Hope to raise a couple of hundred dollars. We will, of co

A Martyr

14271427 views1111 comments33 favs

I've written of this and I've written of that, Have scriven as you have it either that or this: But if you strive against the wind when you decide to piss, They say, you'll find up firing against your hat- Like some old Brother who was broiled when…

The Black Madonna

14271427 views1212 comments77 favs

They say I am filthy. On this high pillar I perch like a stuffed avian relic, flightless, no prey. The horizon before me is broken by scuff and foreign tongue, by atomized evil. Pleas, and there are many, are answered by the only prayer I know, the one prayer, which…