Most read stories

An Angel at Christmas

12121212 views00 comments00 favs

Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…

Inner Demons

12121212 views11 comment22 favs

Every soul has a shadow.Last night, I saw mine. I saw greed,with his sticky, gnarled fingers,seizing the tablecloth of a grand feast,indifferent(or conveniently oblivious)to his starving loved ones. I saw ingratitude,with her proud, scornful …

I Waited Too Long to Remember

12121212 views1616 comments1010 favs

We're in a sedate forest next to a boisterous beach. The sky is sea green above the trees and forest green above Sinepuxent Bay. Chaste squirrels are keeping a lookout for bad-boy gulls. Kids on circus bikes ride out of the woods into their bathing suits. The…

Some Advice

12121212 views00 comments00 favs

Justify your metamorphasis

The Donkey

12121212 views1111 comments88 favs

Since dawn doesn't understand my words, I will give them to the donkey, finely cut for him, let them ferment some time and add a few sprigs of lucerne. The donkey grazes in the meadow down the road and always welcomes me with a grin that displays his mauve gums and his…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 53

12121212 views22 comments11 fav

I am beleaguered by duplicity.

Waiting, Waiting

12121212 views55 comments55 favs

The fear you represent is a real drag. That's all there is to say. But like every other house on the block I have spiders in the basement who are waiting to be brought up into the golden light. These creatures only want to be good at being alive. Instead they are given…

how to kill a dragon dead (except)

12121212 views33 comments22 favs

the worm was stabbed where two rivers branch:/who would slay was slain.

Hasn't Got A Prayer

12121212 views22 comments22 favs

This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.

The Semaphore of Civilization

12111211 views44 comments22 favs

We're alone and besieged / by badness.

Double Helix

12111211 views55 comments55 favs

Violence and property

Go Running Up That Hill

12111211 views33 comments33 favs

Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.

New Routine

12111211 views11 comment11 fav

It was time to leave.

Snowdrop White

12111211 views44 comments00 favs

We light cigarettes, take turns putting them out on each other's arms, legs, anywhere hard without a mark. It's living, he says, it's better to know you're alive than feel nothing at all. My brother is two years older than you, I was thinking on Tuesday,…

The Search for Pastina Continues

12111211 views22 comments11 fav

To assist you in recalling some of Episode One of - "A Poem by Jasmine Coriander-Semolina": My head lifted up slowly as I looked up through a gaussian blur of fragrant incense smoke and saw she was crying. She whispered that her daughter, Pastina, was last…

Grief Leaves the Room

12111211 views44 comments33 favs

It leaves on a Saturday,suddenly, while you are raking leaves or taking out the trash.Those inevitable, boring things.You do not hear it go;it's been quiet before when it left certain rooms. It no longersleeps beside you, and you learnedlong ago that the bed was…

Carnival

12111211 views33 comments33 favs

I’m well aware of the shadow stalking just to my left, her mannish voice flirting with my sensibilities.

Dirty Deeds

12111211 views00 comments00 favs

Mustard stings the corner of his lips. He swipes it away with a finger, and looks closer at the hot dog. The piece of meat is ripped open like a sliced finger stuck in a doughy bandage

Shirley Ave.

12111211 views00 comments00 favs

What can I offer you, White Moon?This full night lays black before your stoic assent—and Ibreathe my final breath, frantic—for you. I wait, damned,a bestial lover in the broken dark of the variety market, whisperinga word of forgiveness to an empty window. I…

Out of Vegas

12111211 views44 comments33 favs

Whatever it is, the night vibe feeds off that disadvantage, nibbles at the desperation of those who come here.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 66

12111211 views11 comment11 fav

Jack Krackenthorpe, Director-General of MI-5, sat alone drinking tea in Lee Ho Fook, a third-rate Chinese restaurant in Soho a mile from his Curzon Street office.

Filtering Grace

12111211 views22 comments22 favs

...She was my first, my only, she broke me in then brought me down. Alone now, I cycle through hundreds of variations of her image like a flip book narrating some abstract story. That’s all she is now to me, an incoherent melange of tints, saturations, an

Oops...

12111211 views1111 comments77 favs

--small chin, timid mouth, frail nose, weak narrow-set eyes--

Literary Intercourse

12101210 views55 comments55 favs

Meaning is harder to sell, unless it’s an analysis of why there is a Justin Bieber.”

The Full Car: A California Saga (1968)

12101210 views00 comments00 favs

—They turned him into a time bomb. Listen close, and you can hear the tick-tick-tick. —All I hear is snoring. How do you know he was brainwashed? —Because he can’t remember a thing about the experiment. —I can say this: If he can’t remember anyth

Hippie Mix

12101210 views00 comments00 favs

Let us talk granola and improvising on the margins of munchies and breakfast.

SUNRISE

12101210 views11 comment11 fav

There is a false dawn, when night still holds sway, but tempered with promise; anticipation.

No Risks Left To Take.

12101210 views66 comments44 favs

There are no risks left to take. The notion of solitude hums with happiness. Bees gather particularly good honey and a hurricane stops suddenly, deciding not to embark on its natural terror hunt. And I just keep avoiding the knives, the pills and the…

The Scrawny Dog Gospel

12101210 views11 comment11 fav

Opportunity, says Webster, is a, "favorable juncture of circumstances." In my Oxford book of quotations, there are seven famous lines about opportunity. Seven – that’s it! There are twenty-seven regarding failure. Seems it's been easier for the great

eggs

12101210 views33 comments11 fav

i ask you what i taste like and you say "not much."