Most read stories

The Palisades

13891389 views33 comments00 favs

These are not the caffeinated men of barbaric lore.

glass

13891389 views22 comments22 favs

She laughs and licks it.

Left On The Scrap Heap

13891389 views44 comments33 favs

Daylight and cold sensed as an abstract, a number in my mind. Air thin, polluted, lacking oxygen. But the Recyclers are at it again.

Autumn

13891389 views22 comments11 fav

I have never known how gold this time of year, With its palladium arcade, was, of the trees That do not sense the pleasure of their silence; Trees are egalitarian, they do not speak But concourse among themselves, consent to join us At this moment breathing…

His house

13891389 views77 comments55 favs

His house incubates memories. As he sleeps, they hatch.His house is neither here nor there. It occupies a space between watchfulness and insomnia. Grey birds nest on its roof.His house is a refuge from everything except himself. The floor, walls, roof are fat with him.…

Kafka, Smashed

13891389 views99 comments77 favs

perhaps I am only being transported not for replacement but for repair

Apollo (2/2 - sections 3-5)

13881388 views44 comments22 favs

III. Through wheelwind crypts of mystery, through…

Carmen Scarpino, Pioneering Wise Guy, Dead at 78

13881388 views00 comments00 favs

Breasts were developed after World War II, the result of improved nutrition and the additional muscle mass that “Rosie the Riveter”-types acquired through manual labor in jobs that males abandoned to join the war effort.

Retinue

13881388 views44 comments44 favs

the view is breathtaking here.

It's May. Enjoy Yourself!

13881388 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.”…

Postcards from a Private Park

13881388 views33 comments11 fav

First movement I. The town that I…

Forevergrad

13881388 views11 comment11 fav

The man was sitting at his makeshift kitchen table. He was forty-five years old. He wore his mortarboard with tassel whenever he left his home. Once inside either a reputable establishment or one generally considered less so, he was sure to take off his m

A Bum and his Shopping Cart, Giving Up his Ways

13881388 views44 comments11 fav

A bum leaves his shopping cart in the middle of the intersection at 7th Ave and Perry St and walks away leaving everything behind Shopping cart gets hit by an onslaught of yellow taxis whizzing by The contents flying out into the hum

A Losing Hand

13881388 views44 comments00 favs

A group of us from work are playing cards at a friend's house, so when my brother Jimmy calls, I take my phone into the other room. I already know what it's about, really the only reason he ever calls these days.“Look, I hate to ask,” he begins, the way he…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Coda

13881388 views44 comments22 favs

—Man, what a tearjerker way to end an interview, said Ben.

Aesthetic Strategy

13881388 views77 comments55 favs

it acquires a fine translucence

Hook

13881388 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 Treehouse

13881388 views11 comment11 fav

I noticed Sean changed after his grounding. We no longer played night soldiers around the block, no longer biked to the creek to catch crayfish he'd crush with his boots. Sean stopped hunting lizards, stopped charging smaller kids toll to pass…

Too Far

13881388 views44 comments22 favs

Standing there as you walked away from me that late March afternoon, in the park off Meridian Street, the spring tableau seemed

Nineveh

13881388 views00 comments00 favs

My heart was a puzzle completely incomplete, until I learned of love in your embrace.

what time is it really is it?

13881388 views88 comments77 favs

. . . the roar of fire speaks lasting heat . . . .

The Breakable Bonds

13881388 views66 comments33 favs

I signed up for functional I did not ask for this mixed bag of broken glass I have enough to swallow

My Brother's Bedroom

13881388 views11 comment00 favs

they say the sense of smell is the strongest sense connected to memory, but not for me

Across from Margaret Atwood's House

13881388 views11 comment11 fav

Been running so long You've been running so long I bet you can't remember What you're running from

Leda, After the Swan

13871387 views11 comment00 favs

I do not jerk up to sirens birds doorbell shouts hello hello through the letterbox hello

Almost There

13871387 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

Truthful Possum

13871387 views22 comments00 favs

The possum is sneering with truth. I can smell the blood under his fingernails. He has seen it all, the backwoods distilleries and the back porch propane grilles. He has slept under the beds of whores and kings alike.

Arcana Magi Fifth World - Part 2

13871387 views00 comments11 fav

Miranda hugged Madam Mayweather as the girls, except Akane, gathered around them.

Poem before Video Store

13871387 views77 comments44 favs

Last night was full of little fists

A Story about Tourism

13871387 views44 comments22 favs

It was almost like I was dreaming, he is saying, my visit to the ruins of the factory that made the first Narrative Machines.