Most read stories

The Exiled Realm

13311331 views00 comments00 favs

destinies bring me to a damned desert

ExsanguiNations

13311331 views88 comments66 favs

leaches fatten-up

Timmy's Singularity

13311331 views55 comments44 favs

Suddenly, the room was filled with a screaming vortex directed at a pinpoint in the corner. Timmy's bureau was gone and everything loose in the room was flying towards the spot it had occupied. Timmy stood up in horror. He tried to seal this rent by tossi

It's May. Enjoy Yourself!

13311331 views11 comment11 fav

May is National Masturbation Month. How do I know? My pal Senior Sex Expert Joan Price is not only vigorously celebrating, but doing everything she can to spread the word.“I'm on it!” I assured her when she told me. “Thanks.”…

Counterproductive

13311331 views22 comments22 favs

A fat kid running; the sounds of an ice-cream truck —counterproductive.

Hold on

13311331 views11 comment22 favs

I slept and it was pleasant. Then there was the kiss, and it was hot. Later you turned away, and all was November chill. Now there are touches, caresses and shouts, Marvelous nights flavored with favors bestowed, and blackened days,…

Intelligent Design

13311331 views66 comments55 favs

Posit butterflies/ as evidence of heavenly design.

The Campus Socialists

13311331 views33 comments11 fav

The Campus Socialists Paul and Mary Jo lived in an apartment at the top of a long, dark flight of stairs that were so high, I remember as if it were yesterday thinking, the night she pushed him down the stairs, he would surely be dead by the time h

Fear

13311331 views99 comments44 favs

Fear I’ll be stuck here without a ladder

Staying With Mattie

13311331 views88 comments88 favs

I invited Henry to go out with me and Marge, suggesting he ask Ellen who he dated a while back and who still asked about him, but Henry shook his head “no” and said “out things” were just too boring at our ages — and besides, since his…

the leisure to walk about sweetly

13311331 views00 comments00 favs

You seemed to have that leisure to walk about sweetly when I was with you, honey-singing the reward for the intensity of emotion you lunged about in. Nothing seemed like it was going to hurt or harm anyone, even while I was going nuts between the legs.

Missing Her

13311331 views77 comments66 favs

When the teacher was out of the room Myron pretended to play with himself, saying, “down boy” and smiling to the nervous gasping and fake coughs from the other classmates and, since he's my close friend, I think he does silly stuff like this to contend with…

Hook

13311331 views22 comments11 fav

“What the fuck!” Duke muttered, amazed at what he was seeing in the darkened store. A thin curtain of smoke was rising from under the baseboard like an inverted waterfall. It stretched the entire length of the left wall. Holy shit, the joint's on fire! I…

The Memory

13311331 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…

Why Men Compete

13311331 views44 comments33 favs

It starts on the Fallopian Speedway:

Decoy

13311331 views22 comments22 favs

No one saw him arrive at the half-moon garden just south of Delancey, no one saw him hang his cage from one of the drainage pipes, but by the time the rest of us got there, the bamboo frame was already covered with silky, golden cloth that reflected the e

Song Against Unwarranted Cheer

13311331 views77 comments22 favs

If I should stumble into cheerfulness/ remind me of all the business models

Edward Ogle the fourth

13311331 views44 comments44 favs

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

It’s a compromising situation...

13311331 views00 comments00 favs

It’s a compromising situation... The would be Bride of Christ begins perspiring before the crowd. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring echoes through the antique church just one more time, a little loud. With every added verse and every flickering vigi

My Daughter On Wolf Hill Farm

13311331 views11 comment11 fav

I survived as a brave thought,

Prairie Flowers

13311331 views55 comments11 fav

As a kid he had run away from the family farm and shoveled coal back East to put himself through college. Now he was just another old man in a nursing home, desperate for a drink, his blue eyes bleary, a sticky goo filming at the corners of his lips.

instead

13311331 views44 comments44 favs

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

WE WOKE UP LEAN

13311331 views33 comments00 favs

We were careful not to wake the kids & goodbye with a handshake & my skeleton is trapped with your universe inside.

13 cyborg poets

13311331 views44 comments22 favs

1. Lost in the Vision Matrix, J0hn Clare transmitted a distress signal designed to be audible only to himself.2. T S El10t ran on a complex algorithm that produced seemingly fragmentary results. However, if you run Imagewise an underlying order appears.3. C0ler1dge suffered…

The Gatekeeper Of The Pathogens

13301330 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…

Groceries

13301330 views1212 comments00 favs

Your son is six feet tall in the sixth grade. By his sophomore year of high school, he outweighs you by a hundred pounds. He's been offered four football scholarships and one for a sport he's never played. Every morning his mother, your ex ex-wife, makes his breakfast of a…

Moai

13301330 views1616 comments88 favs

Rain and wind and the pecking of birds

Bright Red

13301330 views22 comments00 favs

They shoveled coal into the furnace of the city so the ghosts would be warm for their haunting.

Darkness On My Mind

13301330 views22 comments00 favs

Darkness on my mind doesn't make me blind.

Everything Foreign

13301330 views22 comments11 fav

In college, I made friends with my Jewish roommate. Her name was Leah and she was from Brooklyn. When she asked me home with her for Thanksgiving, she mentioned we could go to synagogue together. I asked if there would be other black people there. "No," Leah…