Most read stories

Song Against Unwarranted Cheer

13341334 views77 comments22 favs

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

Edward Ogle the fourth

13341334 views44 comments44 favs

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

My Daughter On Wolf Hill Farm

13341334 views11 comment11 fav

I survived as a brave thought,

Cause of Death

13341334 views00 comments00 favs

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

Frankenstein's Monster Eats the Brains of Virgins at the Witches' Chainsaw Orgy Massacre

13341334 views55 comments22 favs

If Heaven holds forth its own Infinity, What of selves, of ours, could we stand to see? Cradled with harsh fangs of Memory, Deep forgetfulness, give rather me- Let bright dreams be our self's divinity: Forever holds, in morrow's hours, such little…

The Rider

13341334 views22 comments00 favs

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

Midwestern Charm

13331333 views55 comments33 favs

He slathered the glue on my scalp and talked non-stop about Harlem. Electrodes or nodes, I never asked which, would measure something inside my head. I doubt they actually did though, measure anything. I've had the pleasure of having wires glued to my skull before and have…

ExsanguiNations

13331333 views88 comments66 favs

leaches fatten-up

Moai

13331333 views1616 comments88 favs

Rain and wind and the pecking of birds

Freakuccino

13331333 views77 comments22 favs

The bus was almost empty, just me and an Asian girl who'd cleaned up some since I'd seen her. She was wearing a too-big T-shirt that said Freakuccino and writing in a notebook. If she remembered me she didn't say so I didn't either. Everybody sheds some…

Darkness On My Mind

13331333 views22 comments00 favs

Darkness on my mind doesn't make me blind.

Hold on

13331333 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,…

With Eyes Closed

13331333 views1515 comments88 favs

I believe I will become a bear, snuggle up in a deep cave, coil myself inside my fur, close my eyes on hurting images, turn a deaf ear to the uproar of the world. Bolt my door to the deceiving voices outside. Sleep. Forget. Wait, as we wait for spring, for the violet and…

Intelligent Design

13331333 views66 comments55 favs

Posit butterflies/ as evidence of heavenly design.

Almost There

13331333 views66 comments33 favs

On the phone I asked my mother how she was doing. “I’m getting old,” she said. “Going slow. But getting there. I’m ninety-four!” My mother was always 94, when she was really 93. I remember she was 93 right after she turned 92. And 92

Alfamadog

13331333 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…

Fear

13331333 views99 comments44 favs

Fear I’ll be stuck here without a ladder

The Master of the Air

13331333 views88 comments44 favs

He thought of it as magic, but magic that he understood, the way a magician knows about the hidden compartments in his hat and trunks.

the leisure to walk about sweetly

13331333 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.

Ready to Go

13331333 views66 comments00 favs

Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my phone?Where the fuck are my keys?Where the hell is my…

Inheritance

13331333 views11 comment11 fav

I blame you for my short temper when I go off the handle when my blood runs cold and I can't think straight I can only react. When I say things I don't mean Even if I do. But I am glad for the fire you started inside of me. That time I…

Full of Mad Hope

13331333 views1212 comments22 favs

full of mad hope / we dash into the street / leap into the fray / and enter splendiferous lists

It’s a compromising situation...

13331333 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

Blonde on Blonde

13331333 views33 comments11 fav

Happens at a party, this way, past frat boys perched in branches like idiot hoot owls,

Prairie Flowers

13331333 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

13331333 views44 comments44 favs

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

WE WOKE UP LEAN

13331333 views33 comments00 favs

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

Everybody Was a Virgin Once

13321332 views00 comments00 favs

Most women simply don’t want damaged goods. That’s a fact I’ve been brought face to face with throughout my life. It's something you can continue crushing your brains against, like an impossibly high hurdle. At first you take the damage without unde

Counterproductive

13321332 views22 comments22 favs

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

When the Moon Becomes the Sun

13321332 views66 comments33 favs

While most spread their time in other occupation, I traveled through books and grew my imagination. I knew endless bliss. I was a book eater. I would just devour books that I loved and slug through those I didn't, just to make myself eat the truths and li