Most read stories

Quitting Smack

13901390 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.

Exhumation

13901390 views1010 comments55 favs

the poems/ we never got to will remain,

Tea Time Story

13901390 views11 comment00 favs

She smiled at him. "You want to know the secret, that's why you want her to tell - not because you want her to be happy."

tremendous thousand years' charisma

13901390 views22 comments11 fav

Okay, I’ll admit it, the earth was shaken on the world's underside, when you left for California. And I sometimes slept on the shores of Lake Michigan and Fox River for your tremendous thousand years’ charisma. To say I cried out in pain would be lettin

Yamoussoukro, 2012

13901390 views11 comment00 favs

He is underneath them. His head is like the head of a worm.

End of the Cloud

13901390 views55 comments33 favs

Somewhere between the bleating of sheep And the laying of eggs Comes the licking of frosting And the eating of the cake We’re not young enough To know everything anymore And you may think there’s no rush But I know this There’s a limit t

Coffee Alone

13901390 views66 comments66 favs

And pity us, this generation of sighing:

Notebook (excerpt)

13901390 views66 comments44 favs

I try as much as I can to write but only in as much as you believe―am I successful.

Chalky goes to night school and studies the Classics

13901390 views55 comments44 favs

I don’t even want to think about Aethra shtupping Posiden and Aegeus

Trot fast, my dapple gray!

13901390 views22 comments11 fav

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

Samurai Kitteh

13901390 views33 comments22 favs

She did not know the passage of time, for she was just a bedraggled little kitty, but she stayed behind the lattice for many rising and settings of the Sun.

Edward Ogle the fourth

13901390 views44 comments44 favs

Charted stars by the dozens / with a side of frizzle onions / dawn showers us with glitter.

instead

13901390 views44 comments44 favs

instead of gun metal deceit, sounds of malice;be a drop of rain.

All Wet

13901390 views22 comments22 favs

the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears

'Bout Time

13901390 views1313 comments1212 favs

Kinky Eggs

13901390 views88 comments00 favs

She plucks two eggs from the carton, weighs and measures them with the cup of her palm, the curve of her fingers.

We Should All Have One Great Love

13891389 views66 comments55 favs

My dumb body that does not speak still cried out your name last night. Did you hear it, maybe in your sleep?

Mo Band Names

13891389 views66 comments33 favs

Her Majesty’s Glasses Umbilical Chord Linger Finger Okay Inkjet The Dragon Flies Horny Free Spirit Good Footnote Buttery Clams You’reUp Empty Bladder Star Butter Karmic Impulse Mr. On-the-Ve

Double Vision

13891389 views33 comments22 favs

To conceive of them separated was unthinkable to every wet-eyed soul at the burial.

Anonymous Gamblers

13891389 views44 comments11 fav

1. They Don't Know When To Fold 'Em Gambling junkies are lit on losing their ass and almost can't wait to unload their money, and then reel on home and bounce off the walls or whatever. For these guys, losing's the jackpot, and deep in the hole for…

Buck, naked

13891389 views88 comments11 fav

Buck, naked, has no words. The best he can manage is a dopey strangulated cough. His wife, who is clothed, stands before him, next to the waterbed that took Buck half a day to force into the trailer.

Missed connections

13891389 views11 comment11 fav

I lost my job but the government found me a new one. Now the government pays me to pretend I’m a travelling businessman. I fly around the country to imaginary meetings. It’s part of a project to make it look like the economy is doing well.

There's Life Underground

13891389 views44 comments00 favs

I'm not dreaming anymore.

A Slick Story

13891389 views1717 comments1414 favs

After Slick Daddy — aka Billy Ray Thompson — gave up driving his log truck and took up with playing and singing the blues full-time he was what you might call a hot property around the juke joints along Highway 61. The women didn't seem to mind…

Fear

13891389 views99 comments44 favs

Fear I’ll be stuck here without a ladder

Allergic Reaction

13891389 views11 comment11 fav

On his way to his first fishing expedition in the Bay Area, the man remembered the rustle and shimmer of the willows by the muddied Jemez River in New Mexico, cold beer, the clean camaraderie of childhood friends. He walked along a path choked with greenery to the San Pablo…

The Human Phenom Project

13891389 views44 comments55 favs

I sat at the vast graveyard of broken hearts on the mending fence of wonderment unsealing the silence of the wounds I began to put the pieces together like a puzzle against forgetting

The Phone Call and The Green Murk Crisis

13891389 views55 comments44 favs

hangs inverted and begins a swirling motion,

Ohio Man Charged with Drunken Driving on Motorized Barstool

13891389 views11 comment11 fav

A man in Watchupecka, OH, was charged Wednesday night with drunken driving in heavy traffic in downtown Watchupecka when he failed to stop for a red light.

33 and a 1/3

13891389 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.