Most read stories

The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe

13451345 views22 comments11 fav

Macro-Microbe parked his car and proceeded on foot, which was a misnomer because he had no feet. Typical for Manhattan, no one gave him a second glance except for a homeless woman who tried to sell him hand-sanitizer. Macro-Microbe locomoted himself insid

Smooth and Crunchy

13441344 views44 comments22 favs

No freebies. You want to read it, you have to read all of it.

Five Ways To GET INSPIRED!

13441344 views22 comments00 favs

2. Travel To Somewhere Fascinating, Even In Your Own Back Yard!

Gusts

13441344 views1010 comments66 favs

a girl in a red cap flashes by

sunburn

13441344 views33 comments22 favs

I used to compare her to a sunburnthe first of the summerit is always the worst oneexposed skinalmost hot to the touchturning warm and pinkthen raw and redit is a transition that is effortlessbut still you can feel it happeninga lot like loveyou can feel it all around…

Watch

13441344 views11 comment00 favs

At six a.m. he was awakened by the alarm on the watch, and found he could not remove it from his wrist, though he was able to turn it off. Of course, she was gone, but had left a little patchouli-scented note on a pillow.

Wireless

13441344 views1515 comments77 favs

It seems that back in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm came to this town

Walking with the Moon

13441344 views1111 comments88 favs

I heard a voice. It was calling me as from a far-off cloud. I listened, holding my breath, and heard it again, though fading away, barely audible. If I hadn't known my name I wouldn't have decrypted it. Three hazy syllables clearly detached with a sigh between each of them.…

Not Quite There Yet

13441344 views33 comments33 favs

You're not late yet, but if you don't move now, you will be. You close the cover of your mac book, don't even finish the sentence you were working on or close down the file. What had been of the utmost importance, clutching at your…

OldSchool

13441344 views44 comments22 favs

The gated community of Dos was named for one of Babbage’s landmark educational figures, Ms. Dos.

People

13441344 views00 comments00 favs

Good kid. Awesome job in big cities. Travels a lot. Enjoys Martinis and G&T. She's a romantic. Spends her time online trolling people into submission. Likes softcore porn. Sets cats on fire. Collects stamps.

Quitting Smack

13441344 views66 comments33 favs

I figured he knew what he was doing–he was the crazy one, after all, not me–so we took turns snorting lines of equal volume.

You Require Sharpness of Image and Therefore of Words

13441344 views00 comments11 fav

I wrote a poem and asked a professor to read it. / He said: IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE / like a mad man on meth, foam running down / his mouth crowded with sharp, shimmering teeth.

Harried or Employed

13441344 views1111 comments66 favs

Irony is written sarcasm. Sarcasm is spoken irony: the opposite of what is meant. Catholic irony in fiction seems deeper and more related to theme. Protestant irony starts with P as do other þing.

Coffee Alone

13441344 views66 comments66 favs

And pity us, this generation of sighing:

Pathology

13441344 views88 comments88 favs

PATHOLOGY How awful it is to dissect a marriage! It lays naked on the therapist's steely table. He makes his first incision into the bloated stomach of our malnourished union. He polishes his glasses and peers, cuts the thin taut skin of our…

There's Life Underground

13441344 views44 comments00 favs

I'm not dreaming anymore.

Ghost Story

13441344 views55 comments55 favs

They come to wipe themselves from my memory, but that, of course, is impossible. In this place, we are bound together, the long line of men who have killed me, and I.

Trot fast, my dapple gray!

13441344 views22 comments11 fav

It was night. It was Massachusetts. It was an interview in a snowstorm that Detective Vivian Diaz wished would go away.

November 6th

13441344 views44 comments33 favs

Need not remember, the 6th of November.

God Wanted Us to Come Here

13441344 views00 comments00 favs

Betty had been looking for a distraction; the lawsuits were out of control. Her last nonprofit, Faith and Life Children's Organization, had run into some difficulties due to the recession and the obvious result of trying to do more with less. Why couldn't people…

Katie

13441344 views44 comments33 favs

Katie died on Tuesday.

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

13441344 views1111 comments1010 favs

Before the war...

My Plastic Dreams

13441344 views55 comments33 favs

Once, in the past or future, but definitely not in the present, I worked as a transportation minister for a friendly dictator, whose name was neither Hitler, nor Stalin, nor Kim Jong-Un, but whose mustache was toothbrush, whose smile was sardonic to the p

The Buddhist

13441344 views33 comments22 favs

She is not centered, but she finds her way.

Arcana Magi Zero - c.2

13441344 views00 comments00 favs

It was so dark below, there was only flashlights weaving about and headlights pointing in one direction.

Holy Adam and Saint Jason

13441344 views11 comment11 fav

“Where is my mom?” I think. I shouldn't have to be here alone. I am twenty two years old, strung-out on methamphetamine and sitting in a courtroom. It is the third day of the murder trial. My son was the victim. He was only two and his…

Jazz Torn

13441344 views11 comment11 fav

Lungs bursting in the alleyways trying to keep with the beat.

Nevermore

13441344 views00 comments00 favs

One said 'Yes, I remember.' He was dark and tall and slender A masterful pretender who laid roses on the floor Appearing on the eve of morrow, so slow and full of sorrow With a costume he did borrow, borrowed from the poet's lore From the rare and rad

HVAC is so sexy. What?

13441344 views00 comments00 favs

We had imagined making babies with ease, as if they were simply fruit- ripening on the trees around us- and all we had to do is stretch out our limbs and pluck. We never imagined that skill is involved, that heartbreak is required, and that the one simpl