Most read stories

Noir in cadence

12491249 views1010 comments88 favs

...hup hup hup...

Wordswhisperlove

12491249 views55 comments33 favs

His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the wick of a pretty little candle.

Land Fill at Morning

12491249 views1212 comments99 favs

The gulls/ have somehow mastered the art// of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/ plastic rings

I Channel Quevedo

12481248 views55 comments44 favs

-Hey, life! Nobody answers? WTF? -Ah life! Nobody answers me. Well, what did I expect?

Fixing the RED Wagon

12481248 views11 comment11 fav

I had put the child's wagon, which had been red once, back together again. “Honey”, I said, “I found out the garbagemen will pick up concrete this month.” So, I put…

SHADOW TREASURES

12481248 views00 comments00 favs

Vikki respond, "Say big guy, you eat pussy?" The Mohawk flustered. "Uh!?...Yeah...sure." Vikki snickered, "Great. We got something in common. So do I."

Five Million Yen: Chapter 33

12481248 views00 comments00 favs

This will take forever. I’ll never get to Antibes to meet Isabella, much less make it to Marseille to deliver the picture and then catch the overnight train to Paris. I may have to call Jean-Claude Lyon, the orchestra manager of the Monte Carlo orchestra,

The Garage Sale

12481248 views00 comments11 fav

She excelled at plowing forward. He excelled at staying in one place. Eventually the distances got too great and she put an ocean between them.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 60

12481248 views33 comments00 favs

Thérèse Defarge felt the first drop around ten.

The Days, the Weeks

12481248 views11 comment11 fav

Next morning the thought crosses my mind of snapping Mom’s neck, making sure she’s dead, and then running down to the sea to drown myself.

My Resolutions for YOU In 2014

12481248 views33 comments22 favs

Every year I make New Year's resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I'm trying something different -- resolutions for other people. Hey world -- here are the changes I'd like to see YOU make in 2014(1) Cell phone owners: No more blathering on your cell in…

The Bridge

12481248 views33 comments11 fav

And the urban sprawl doesn’t hesitate. All around me, I taste the aftermath of bricks, dust and dirt, freshly laid concrete slabs.

Tea Time

12481248 views33 comments11 fav

But I sense a tremor in your soul as well, young friend, a yearning of some sorts.

Gray Lizard

12481248 views66 comments66 favs

He can’t enlarge the rock—/ can only find its safest distance

Micromanaged Truth

12481248 views22 comments22 favs

Let your father stay through that dinner when his mistress needed him, while your mother was on the verge.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 21

12481248 views00 comments00 favs

Some friends of mine took him for a ride out to Broad Channel, you know that enclave of crazies that live in houses on stilts on the island in Jamaica Bay on Cross Bay Boulevard. He might find that when the tide comes in, the water might be a little deepe

in that time

12481248 views66 comments33 favs

in that time people had gone away and i waited in the inside and looked out on balconies. the ending of the dusk was coming and the details of the railings and brick, the tree branches holding purple plums, the stacked railway ties and a thousand other details became…

The City

12481248 views11 comment00 favs

“A story shines brighter through a tear in your eye,” You say

Skunks

12471247 views1313 comments66 favs

I tell people that we leave out food for the creatures to appease the skunk gods.

War Story: Veteran of a foreign war

12471247 views00 comments00 favs

"Did you see any action?" I ask, hoping for a story. He points to a scar ripping through the chevron on his left arm but says nothing.

Free Magic Lessons

12471247 views99 comments66 favs

" No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."--T.S. EliotI think, okay now I know, the poem's starting to wear off. But I'm alive, at least…

Of the Terrible Angels and Their Fleshy Conduits

12471247 views1515 comments99 favs

Other pathways are more satisfactory. They are more closely attuned to music of the other world. Even so, the heat eventually burns them up.

Pharaoh's Revenge

12471247 views22 comments11 fav

The first intimation that something was afoul was when his computer crashed.

Carpe Diem Blues

12471247 views11 comment00 favs

Sing your barrel-chest blues, / Hard young man.

On Senior Prom & Being Profoundly Unpleasant

12471247 views22 comments11 fav

When I was in high school, we had a prom. The juniors were paired with the seniors; and when I was a senior, I recall meeting my date for the first time. You can imagine she was not enthralled.

Day One

12471247 views22 comments22 favs

I lounged in my captain’s chair growing a beard. Things continued in this way and then the president called.He wanted to know the meaning of virtue.

Left On The Scrap Heap

12471247 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.

Elevator Music

12471247 views66 comments22 favs

Of course, no one can control what goes on in an elevator.

Feb 5

12471247 views66 comments44 favs

He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.

Convalescent

12471247 views1212 comments66 favs

that was one ending