Most read stories

EFFORT

13021302 views00 comments00 favs

From outside it looked abandoned. We lived at the top of a dead end hill. The grass was high and brown, the bricks in the driveway were crooked, caved in. The winter was mild; rotten crabapples, half-frozen, lined the end of the road. This was my house.

The Forest is Falling

13021302 views1818 comments55 favs

another paper saving 55er

This page is intentionally left blank.

13011301 views11 comment00 favs

Abby

13011301 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…

Stuffed Animals

13011301 views00 comments00 favs

Mr. Skunk looked disdainfully at the window. “When the fuck do we get out of this place?” It was mostly rhetorical as the Skunks were all stuffed and inanimate.

Arcana Magi Pure Vol.6 - c.2

13011301 views00 comments00 favs

As Mrs. Saito put on the helmet, the copter got off the ground. She focused her Mana and placed her hand on the window, bracing for the birds arrival.

Damien Hirst Burger

13001300 views33 comments11 fav

the Tate Modern is like a dungeon!

Prison

13001300 views00 comments00 favs

I am trapped.

faking an orgasm

13001300 views22 comments11 fav

There’s an account of roasting inward, holding myself like a rock inflamed, my inward joy rotting my veins. How was I supposed to go on loving anything after you? Like a pigeon hated at home, awaiting your passionate kisses? Knowing how your classical k

Confronting the Alien

13001300 views1313 comments77 favs

I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/ for a moment a shower of my own world’s/ prismatics.

To the Folksinger Just Arrived

13001300 views44 comments11 fav

Whisper salutations to your irises

Hive mentality

13001300 views11 comment11 fav

My anger over yesterday's argument with you slipped from memory when I felt the first of the two hundred bee stings, each tiny jab another burst of brilliant pain, and each little attack another reminder to watch where I'm walking.

Unlimited And Limited

13001300 views88 comments00 favs

Despite kryptonite not actually existing it became possible to buy, for 300 dollars, pieces of kryptonite on eBay. Personal protection, the sales pitch said. The pieces of kryptonite looked suspiciously like green plastic.

Snowdrop White

13001300 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,…

Rejection Isn’t Always Everything It’s Racked Up To Be

13001300 views22 comments22 favs

I was so messed up when you left me, and I admit I went around searching the faces of the crowd for the man who filled your womb.

The Giver and The Gone

13001300 views44 comments44 favs

They were once a crown,of some living stag -- not quite old,not quite young: now bone. Something at the cusp of its age. Here they stand, given by a loved friendon a place in my home; smelling, whenI get very close, of time. They are shaped like small…

Me and Jim the Wonder Dog

13001300 views22 comments11 fav

“Lassie was a hack,” Jim the Wonder Dog says as he looks out over fields of soybeans. “She couldn’t act her way out of a 25 pound bag of Purina Dog Chow."

The Dead in Paris, Parts 5 and 6

13001300 views55 comments55 favs

The virgins smirk / // We got medieval on their asses

Art exploits

13001300 views55 comments55 favs

Against// the mysteries and the dark/ it illuminates and shapes

gravelortian part 5

13001300 views11 comment11 fav

papa wants to dance - the future is so bright - feel good all the time baby

a grey green enamel vase in the rain

13001300 views22 comments22 favs

we hover black as carrion birds with a glut empty need seems to me she's fell as thee and knows exactly where we posture anxiously spitting falsehoods on cue twittering like snipes cause there's nothing left to do she might have spent her whole life just

Call Me

13001300 views99 comments44 favs

The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”

ALL SMOKE RISES. The story of Lilly and her need for MILK-BLOOD

13001300 views00 comments00 favs

Lilly was anything but a white flower. Her skin had been blackened and burnt. Charred legs and arms stuck out like tiny tree limbs, the knuckles on her fingers barely covered by skin. The child’s face is frozen in the beginnings of a scream. She seems anc

Song: Three Good Hubcaps, music by Tom Casesa

13001300 views22 comments22 favs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3RAM7-ciU

Alive

12991299 views44 comments22 favs

Imagine this: One day you are walking down the street (wearing your protective mask, of course, the cloth one you bought the other day because you liked the color and design) when, by chance, you happen upon a strange sight.

four haiku

12991299 views77 comments66 favs

years later ghosts enter. . . .

Hippie Mix

12991299 views00 comments00 favs

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

Five Million Yen: Chapter 26

12991299 views00 comments11 fav

Ben gagged after shot-gunning the scotch. He hiccupped and it came back up through his nose. He grabbed a napkin and caught most of a shot and a half of Whyte & MacKay as it poured out his nose.

Bees in the Eaves

12991299 views66 comments55 favs

We write in darkness. We love in alleys. We breathe into beige paper bags. Anything to mollify the confusion. Anything to simplify the math.

shame

12991299 views11 comment00 favs

A deserted breeze hangs and waits and talks with staggered shapes in the sky like a melancholic child, held behind and forced to face the wall as better taught and better-tempered children dig for ancient ruins just ou