Most read stories

Matchbox Car

14061406 views22 comments00 favs

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

Your Guide to a WASP Bar Mitzvah

14061406 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.”

One Story Above the Boy in an Old Car

14061406 views77 comments44 favs

Near dusk today a car backfired on the street beneath my office window

Another Life Altogether

14061406 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…

The Metaphysics of Cake

14061406 views55 comments22 favs

Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.

Small Boat Row Told Through a Roughed Out Dungeon Window

14061406 views55 comments55 favs

The princess knew exactly where to find the annoying gurgling frog of her childhood, but she wasn't wearing the right shoes to step onto lily pads with, so she decided there and then to take a stolen boat out onto that soft mission, all by herself instead. It was a…

The Memory

14061406 views1414 comments88 favs

The old lady is losing her memory. She forgets people's names yet so familiar to her. A little sheepish, she takes her basket and walks to the village. Just like when her legs were young, suntanned, shapely and attractive. Along the footpath, by the shop windows, over the…

One in the Numberless Series of Requiems

14061406 views1212 comments99 favs

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

Dapplegrey (Where He Lived)

14061406 views33 comments22 favs

A short time ago, a man who lived near me got angry. He woke up one morning and torched his house, with his wife and stepdaughter still inside. He drove up I-35 to the Georgetown airport, got his plane, and flew it into the Echelon Building in Austin.

Fifty Bucks, More or Less by

14061406 views1010 comments22 favs

Stellar

14061406 views33 comments00 favs

After our first kiss, a team of scientists scrubbed away the cancer of your lipstick.

Klout

14061406 views33 comments22 favs

while you peed on that little old lady's begonias

the long white cloud above my body

14051405 views22 comments11 fav

Butter me up, moon lover. Remember, I was once your warm and hot goddess of flowers, washed to shore with the others you may have forgotten. Now the issue of the earth gets nearer, and we can see each other once again, if only in our dreams. Just be

Alice in Hell: 13 slithy variations

14051405 views22 comments22 favs

1. Having made Alice from one of the Mad Hatter's ribs, Humpty Dumpty told her she could do anything, except speak. “How bothersome!” she said.2. In the church, Alice was horrified to be presented with a talking lamb. “EAT ME!” it bleated and, as the…

Cleaning The Dead

14051405 views33 comments22 favs

"Don't pull too hard," warned Father. "You might sever it from the body, spraying blood into your eyes."

The memories lived in the house

14051405 views1313 comments55 favs

each act of creation is a jolt of expectation

Black Friday Crime Scene

14051405 views55 comments33 favs

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

A Tangled Web of Likes

14051405 views22 comments00 favs

Liking up with the Joneses...

The 83rd Meridian West

14051405 views11 comment11 fav

The priest went into the place in those parts, the priest an old pear or grape gotten ripe and then moreso, but never actually expiring . He was hunched and it looked like he was broken at some integral part, but nobody could tell for sure where. One time, a bat…

Faith in the Rest

14051405 views22 comments00 favs

She had the smile of a pixie on mushrooms in a disco ball universe, and I dug her style.

Widow Walk

14051405 views99 comments66 favs

She heads toward the end of the island and doesn't look back.

Time. Stop.

14051405 views22 comments22 favs

So young. So innocent. How do you tell a little one that her mother is dying? The father seemed to be bathing in a sea of hopelessness lately.

Advice To A Young Poet

14051405 views11 comment00 favs

Touch these words with your mind. They will create an elephant with an unidentifiable itch.

Off Shoots

14051405 views22 comments22 favs

My name is Lassie.

the dreamer of eggs

14051405 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,

Better Off In My Head

14051405 views11 comment00 favs

The morning news. The birthday present you bought me. This poem. My hair when I wake up in the morning, at any given point in the day. Pigeon pose. My singing voice. How much I love myself. Coffee. Sex. Not having sex. Having movie star sex. Ha

Zin Is Not a True Vegetarian

14051405 views88 comments66 favs

She wakes up lip-syncing the remnants of a dream: the throb of cherry blossoms, the whine of lotus flowers.

No Exit

14051405 views88 comments66 favs

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

Woman at the Bar

14051405 views1010 comments11 fav

I saw a woman / at the bar tonight

Cabinet

14051405 views44 comments11 fav

In the morning I listen through an ear-trumpet