Most read stories

Selfgod

949949 views00 comments00 favs

Loving himself. Loved by no one. Loving no one.

Lower-order Mammals

949949 views00 comments00 favs

they'd turned into humans overnight

Struggle for Life

949949 views88 comments22 favs

7.53Another morning ritual. Trying to fill the loose ends of time in the early morning is a task.7.54I've done about everything, too early to work and too late to go back to sleep. 7.55Trying to avoid the nausea of life at all cost. My mind is a snakepit, filled with…

We Are Bad Poets

949949 views11 comment00 favs

Fuck love :)

Post-apocalyptic Fable # 8

948948 views1212 comments66 favs

Crouching like little children in a game of hide & seek, we entered the old house, slowly

Generation Blues

948948 views66 comments11 fav

A Satire We are the Social Justice soldiers, we parrot platitudes and lies, And expect you all to worship the same things we idolise. We ignore Islamic extremism and domestic terrorism too, Because we are Cultural Relativists whose brains are up our…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 23

948948 views00 comments00 favs

Detective-Sergeant Claude Mulvihill sat in his squad car, which was parked on 54th Street in front of Bright Star Recording Studios. He had just finished the second of two jelly donuts and was spiking his coffee with three packets of sugar.

The Legend of Knifemouth’s Legendary Mouth Grows

948948 views22 comments22 favs

In the small towns of central and southern Illinois there lives a very indecent sort of man.

Les Cahiers du Kung Fu Pimping Cinema

948948 views00 comments00 favs

We at Cahiers must continually ask–is le cinema de kung fu pimping really, truly—as bad as it wanna be?

Round And Round

948948 views22 comments00 favs

"GROW A PAIR AND DRIVE! DRIVE!!"

Home, Soldier

948948 views22 comments00 favs

felt as if someone had pulled me in by the belt, or grabbed me by a knot in the hair, and kissed me with fire-engine lips. I was happy. I was in love.

I heard you singing in the bedrooms

948948 views44 comments11 fav

I heard you singing in the bedrooms with me. The down I was fond of, down of your cheek, your thighs light blonde in the light. Out of the dark, sweet bay, were you like a shining rock, shining white, undulating, a thing of heat. I remember you, yes!

The Flame Child

948948 views11 comment00 favs

Lupe drove. She didn't know where she was going, but still she drove. The Mustang whined because she did not shift gears. The street was wet from a night rain and if…

Dreamless

948948 views66 comments33 favs

We call it the alley of the shadows, the low sunless concavity of earth between the stalks, the acrid scent of the ripened arrow-points.

BUNGEE

948948 views88 comments66 favs

The drop is like a hangman's drop, an executioner's, but farther and longer, perhaps three or four seconds.

Weaving the Way

948948 views44 comments22 favs

Yellows and reds shed warp and weft bobbins of color spooling...

Broadloom

948948 views55 comments44 favs

I have constructed this emotion with tinfoil and stilts. I wear the mask of a typewriter. I have roots in Minnesota. I have a glass hat and a junkyard monstrosity pregnant with parables.

The Yolk

948948 views33 comments11 fav

It's a house of eggs.

In Mimetic Sympathy with the Dark Core of the Galaxy

948948 views99 comments88 favs

It renders the inner ears inoperative-/ Music that once reverberated inside 
/ the brain-hut concert hall squeaks

More Of My Dark Job History

948948 views55 comments55 favs

In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,

stoplight - (haiku love series - #2)

947947 views00 comments00 favs

stoplight - (haiku love series - #2) eyes lock in a gaze glimpses of my future spark then you walk away

Philip Guston and the Ultimate Mudball

947947 views55 comments55 favs

The huge mudball has rolled downhill, catching up one of them. Part of a leg sticking up from the surface with its shoe still on, but we can assume the rest of the human, or humanity if you will, is lost somewhere deep inside it.

Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 12: In Which Frank Consults A Mirror

947947 views22 comments00 favs

"I need a male friend, and I think I've found one."

Perimeter and Paramour

947947 views22 comments22 favs

Jack and Jane went up the hill.Give us a drink, said Jack. Here go, said Jane. They watched a bit of the city below, the city that was lit up by soft electrical lights. What say tonight Jane? Why so quiet? Many spirits are out Jack. They are all around. …

The Night

947947 views22 comments00 favs

Meanwhile stars continue to surprise...

Counterproductive

947947 views22 comments22 favs

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

momentary delay

947947 views11 comment11 fav

The clouds cried more than silver tears, this time.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6

947947 views55 comments00 favs

When I got word from Mary Jo, she warned me that Mitchell Parkman was out looking for me with a butcher knife. I knew immediately what I had to do. I packed up my things and sold the Pepsi van and moved up to a room on Regent Street in Berkeley, all the w

Manet Nightmare

947947 views1212 comments88 favs

the tall, thin ectomorph sat on the verdant, green grass as the unclothed naked woman on the Sunday-picnic blanket poured white cow’s milk into a vodka shot glass

Prometheus

947947 views22 comments11 fav

Allow me one moment of stasis from pain, If I must really become that one, Who brought by giant hand man's gain, And suffered through theft of the sun. No dagger pricks the injured side, Or vulture picks the source of bile: Still must wan hordes…