Most read stories

Can a Hummingbird Sing?

12961296 views33 comments33 favs

I'm the first child she ever knew that couldn't sing.

August and After Haiku

12961296 views1212 comments66 favs

The brown grackle chirps/ as she chomps a plump cricket-/ melodious meal.

The Business of Shadows

12961296 views22 comments00 favs

The flowerpots across the street from Frank’s room at the Place d’Armes Hotel never appeared parched by the late August sun.

Poetic Emmy's #1

12961296 views33 comments33 favs

I’d like to thank no one. But especially my first love in life For putting me through hell With all her lies and eternal sweetness Toward all her many leading men While maintaining she was virgin Until she met me. What was the point? Ah, y

Equality

12961296 views33 comments33 favs

J., W., and W.’s girlfriend were exploring the nature and mores of homosexual conduct by discussing whether W. would be willing to suck J.’s cock.

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.4 - c.1

12961296 views00 comments00 favs

Ciel’s eyes trembled at how this all could have happened. With tears falling down her cheeks, all senses of hope disappeared.

DIVINE EROS

12961296 views11 comment11 fav

I drink the funeral in a dream. I give satisfaction in voice overs.

Old Eyes

12961296 views55 comments22 favs

I passed the old man from upstairs now and then, usually on Saturdays.

Ponies

12961296 views33 comments11 fav

“The moon is a monk,” you said.

Typing Right On Fictionaut, Take 1

12961296 views55 comments11 fav

We went driving on Sundays.

last attempt at innocence

12951295 views33 comments22 favs

When we were leaving to go to the ice rink, Lynda surprised all of us by saying she wanted to come along. She slid all the way over in the front seat to be next to me, while one of my buddies, Miller, who had his eye on her himself, slid into the passen

We Are In Our Thirties Now

12951295 views33 comments11 fav

For years, Nina lived in an apartment with furniture that was silver or clear or metallic, she could see her reflection in every surface. She had an enormous television that took up one entire wall of the small living room. She and Anna and Desmond, Nina's downstairs …

All you need is a friend

12951295 views00 comments00 favs

So, before he could brew with the crew, God decided to make one last trip to Earth, drawn by nostalgia and the prospect of watching a football World Cup from the stands. That is where He met Mini.

It's Legal Here

12951295 views33 comments22 favs

You may think it's illegal Well, you'd be wrong, ya hear? Cause you're just in the wrong Neck of the woods And it's legal here Want some beer? Yeah, that's right It's legal here Don't go opening the door Any wider, I know You don't

Anniversary

12951295 views33 comments11 fav

He honestly could care less.  We should converse, you and I, he says. All right, she says.  She lays down the baster in her drawn out way, heel to toe on the countertop, one step in a…

Mickey and Harriet

12951295 views11 comment00 favs

Ellie's got two parrots. She owns the house down the block to the left where the golf club owner fixes her grounds and garage because he can't stop working on his vacation. …

Destiny Knocking

12951295 views1111 comments33 favs

She called for land usage to fulfill a social function, to provide an affordable and sustainable way of life for all.

Arcana Magi Zero Arc 3 - c.2

12951295 views00 comments00 favs

Megumi turned to the night sky. The moon was brighter than she ever saw. The argument got louder as her smile shrunk into sadness.

7-Eleven, 2AM

12951295 views11 comment11 fav

In this 7-Eleven at 2AM I can write the saddest lines. / Among these malcontents and degenerates I am Ovid

The Truth about the Law

12951295 views11 comment11 fav

I hear the undying screams of the children outside.

S.Hallow

12951295 views00 comments00 favs

Andy writes porn.

Abby

12951295 views00 comments00 favs

The music is too loud in here and it's hurting my ears. I know some of the words to the songs because my older sister listens to the same stuff when she's in her bedroom and is playing her iPod and my dad yells at her to turn that crap down. I like my dad. He calls me…

Living for You

12951295 views33 comments11 fav

I’d say something I didn’t mean, then she’d say something she didn’t mean, and on and on until one of us came up dry and would be forced to—take exception to something the other had said, to take it seriously.

4:09 and American Music

12951295 views1010 comments33 favs

If you knew everything, you would not be able to sit on tropical balconies at 4:09 A.M., discovering a book and then the world for the first time If you were part of the spiritual set, and could astral travel far and wide, but neglected to open the door…

our bodies were melting into each other

12951295 views66 comments00 favs

I had a dream about you once. I don't know if I told you about it already or not. (If I did, I apologize.) I'm never quite sure who you're writing about in some of your stories (maybe a composite of everyone?) but I did hold you one more time. In my dream

Wolfie

12951295 views44 comments11 fav

Sharon called me “Wolfie” (very sweet!) and I distinctly heard her gasp, “Jesus!” when I entered her the first time on my dad’s ski boat, while you and Rick DeMille came swimming up behind us, yelling out my name: “Pharaoh … Pharaoh.” We

One Day I Will

12951295 views22 comments11 fav

Gotta ask myself what I’m doing here. What keeps me tied. Caged. What is it?

Beowulf in Hell

12951295 views00 comments00 favs

They strung him up, stowed on the balcony, and beat him with sticks, and beat him with rocks, and bent his muscles, …

Waiting, Waiting

12951295 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…

Blank Checks

12951295 views88 comments88 favs

Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...