Most read stories

Brexit

13661366 views44 comments33 favs

Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.

Waiting for Hurricane Dennis, Florida 2005

13661366 views33 comments33 favs

WAITING FOR HURRICANE DENNIS, FLORIDA 2005 With soft eyes, she quizzed, shivered, said: “Where's Dad? Where's Ric? Will you leave me here alone? Are you all going to leave? Where's Peter? Do you feel all right? We're…

The Incident

13651365 views44 comments44 favs

There are some I don’t recognize. My gaze lingers for a second. It’s bad business this.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 35

13651365 views00 comments00 favs

They sat eating and looking at each other. To Ben, Claudia was certainly a handsome woman and a good bed partner, but he was getting more and more suspicious of her motives.

Shame On 34th Street

13651365 views00 comments00 favs

This tanka poem was inspired by news report that the Macy's of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame has a white Santa in front and a black Santa in back.

13 statements about the United States of Chimerica made by the Bird King during a press conference

13651365 views11 comment11 fav

1. Jesus made the United States of Chimerica from the hide of a gator he killed with his bare hands back in the winter of '81.2. The people of the United States of Chimerica are watched over by a straight-talkin' angel with hillbilly eyes and a crown of nuclear missiles.3.…

Quitting Smack

13651365 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.

the road of no light, the map of no road

13651365 views44 comments22 favs

so out to the night, and turning out the stars, so nothing can last, and nothing is taken in

Alfamadog

13651365 views44 comments44 favs

It was that special ache between heart and stomach that made me stop things. That ache that cannot be caused by the mere knowledge that you have steered your life into a completely wrong direction. To feel this pain, you also need to have no clue why and how it…

An Uneventful Night in an Italian Hospital

13651365 views66 comments44 favs

The voice is back! That voice, like milk and honey, like mother, like the school nurse who bandaged my scraped knee.

Termite ‘Grace’: #769

13651365 views00 comments00 favs

‘Grace’ was eliminated sometime in year b.s. (Before Seat) 12, for bottlenecking Productivity and holding back Progress.

A Love Letter To The Glasgow Transport System

13651365 views44 comments33 favs

Skulk like a lovespun spider in a record store corner on the orange formica subway car

Out of the Woods

13651365 views33 comments33 favs

No, your clever costume won’t protect you.

How Zin Prepares for Early Winter While Saint Bernards Cause Major Traffic Jams along East Houston

13651365 views1515 comments77 favs

She sings off-key while her married lover shadow-boxes his one-dimensional and split-off selves.

The Roman Twin

13651365 views00 comments00 favs

Reverend Peter Roman could stand it no more. He stopped his speech. He felt a fire burning through him, a hatred for humanity and all the weaknesses of beings not perfect before God. He stood a long while, staring at the congregation. Then, he slowly spok

The Zone of Forgotten Things

13651365 views55 comments22 favs

In the zone of forgotten things, everything moves through a weak gravitational field

Cause of Death

13651365 views00 comments00 favs

“You sure?” He nods. “Maybe it was pneuomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.” Flash of a smile, sobbing laughter, like an abandoned seal.

Mike

13651365 views00 comments11 fav

“Hi, I'm Mike, and I don't wanna work ... Wanna play foos?”

The Rider

13651365 views22 comments00 favs

"The rider rode his bike in Arizona just about every day and for all the usual reasons....."

Sticking My Head Out of the Car Window

13641364 views66 comments22 favs

Standing on the beach, watching the waves crash onto the shore, before the storm. It is easy to understand why dogs like sticking their head out of the car window. Standing on my favorite part of the beach, merely feet from the beach house. The house you weren't…

Unintentional Hermits/ Animal Cities- The Helper

13641364 views33 comments00 favs

So this was how it started. The next day Kia returned to sit with him a bit and the next day and the day after that until the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. Eventually she found out his name was Saul, that he had no 'proper' job, was o

Deliberate Music

13641364 views1111 comments1010 favs

My emulations always fail. At heart,/ I don’t want bougainvillea nor blushing pilgrims

Fragment from an Unwritten Diary

13641364 views66 comments44 favs

It's not stories the quiet lack, but inclination...

Mo Band Names

13641364 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

A Tale

13641364 views44 comments22 favs

But you don’t know how to fly, Bunny! How ever will we survive?

The Gatekeeper Of The Pathogens

13641364 views11 comment11 fav

It was in his teeth. A blackness, a subscription to an outsideness, a painful contraction of burnt out trees scattered there among sand drifts and tidal debris. His face, lightly weathered and troubled, a tightness built into eyes of thought and separation. His arms, strong…

Lingua Materna, Lingua Imperiale

13641364 views88 comments77 favs

arrogant, sullen,/ supple and ambiguous,// English seems the ideal tongue

Sunny And 78

13641364 views00 comments00 favs

Tombstone is a tongue of stone in the mouth of the desert. The desert is a living entity. It speaks. It speaks with a tongue of stone. It says: Tombstone.

Nocturnes

13641364 views44 comments44 favs

You go out on a night with no moon, when all the stars are flush in the sky, when all of everything, even you, is just a shadow moving softly, and I swear, you can hear it, if you listen hard enough. The music. It’s like it’s coming from under the ground.

Osmotic potential

13641364 views55 comments44 favs

Guttering semiotics, The jeremiads of delirium; Drinking lukewarm tea over a late candle Like Hamlet in a power-cut; Affecting his own audience of himself, Hastening soliloquies through gritted sophisms, Withered and spun to intentional…