Most read stories

Cherry of Menloves

11741174 views11 comment11 fav

Miranda laughed. The cream of the retail industry laughed...

An Excoriated Sensibility

11741174 views88 comments77 favs

The machines of her perception/ tuned themselves to frequencies// that peeled her skin and fatty tissue

Eternally Shall Be the Leaves I Rest

11741174 views00 comments00 favs

All greatest things are tokens of themselves: They need no tongues to say why they are so, To say why suns surpass historic gulfs Or why the rain sheds more tears than the snow: Yet man must strive to paint what falls beneath The glance…

The Jade Dragon

11741174 views11 comment11 fav

FUN MOVIE TRAILER: 41 members of my family participated in a movie I co-wrote and shot with my wife. Have a look!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7k2r81iXEHere's the 64 minute film-noir-style…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 30

11731173 views00 comments00 favs

Ben shook his head in disbelief: Was this some theatrical soothsayer trick of Ida’s?

Hush

11731173 views44 comments33 favs

You think you are a perpetual motion machine, free of thermodynamic law. I’m telling you, you’re wrong.

I heard you singing in the bedrooms

11731173 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!

Day One

11731173 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.

Collect Enough Fragments, You've Got Yourself a Poem

11731173 views1414 comments1111 favs

I. The sun's corona. Empty boxes near the firehouse. Red birth. A bird's lost wing. II. The bitterness of littleness. Apples in a pile.Early love.A spider, swinging. III. A father's harshness.Twelve bills unpaid. Leaves in a crevice. A dream…

just plain Jerry

11731173 views77 comments22 favs

I remember one afternoon when Terry and I did it in broad daylight in a nearby park in Lombard, or Glen Ellen. This was after we had broken up already and I was seeing Jolene, I think, before leaving to go out to my writing program at U.C. Irvine. It wa

nerd

11731173 views22 comments11 fav

We are nerds. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us bitch.

The Bison's Alimony

11731173 views66 comments11 fav

The bison know a lot about Longfellow

Cookies

11731173 views66 comments33 favs

What was it about the aged and cookies? Here was another one that relished them. Sebastian's grandmother was a specialist. People on the outside thought she was a bird enthusiast. Grandma could be seen refilling the bird feeders at all hours. After the morning…

The way the sky was now

11731173 views00 comments00 favs

I’d like to say we didn’t remember the Alamo, but one of ours had to piss. We ran into youknowwho and he was fighting Mexicans and it was so beautiful and there were fireworks, or else it was God’s wrath, or else it was the sky now.

Cherry Almond Streusel Cake

11731173 views44 comments11 fav

Tomorrow we will eat it in anger.

Move and Pause

11721172 views99 comments66 favs

On a Saturday I flew from murky air. My wings grown weak, I stole away from plundered nest, casual stings, and skillful barbs. In family's fold, I perch.

Vestiges

11721172 views44 comments33 favs

Even the fruit from the nearby orchard (which I, in part, nourish) batters my stone to rot.

The Dance

11721172 views22 comments00 favs

Angelo stood to the side and lit a cigarette.

Junior League Therapy

11721172 views55 comments44 favs

She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid, it kept falling down

Thirty Seconds

11721172 views44 comments11 fav

That was all it took. Thirty seconds.Half of a minute.30: He was standing with me on the corner of the street, 29: waiting for the crosswalk to say it was okay for us to make our way to the other side. 28: The red "do not walk" signal changed to the white "join us over…

For One Group of Boys, Donated Cars Mean a Way Out

11721172 views00 comments00 favs

The glamour of living in the Rebuilt Engine Capital of the World is meaningless to the young boys who roam its crowded streets after school, desperately looking for something to take their minds off their homework.

Thank God for Kids — by Comparison, I'M 'Adult'!

11721172 views00 comments00 favs

[NOTE: PLEASE DEFER READING THIS UNTIL YOU'VE COMPLETED THE 'MONAD' (OR 'MILESTONE') YOU'VE NEEDED TO! THANKS! BE FOREWARNED!]

Appearance

11721172 views99 comments88 favs

After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.

Flurry

11721172 views1515 comments88 favs

If I had slept a little longer, I/ would not have seen this rarity at all.

Miriam

11721172 views22 comments22 favs

When daybreak comes, it falls a pall pást mé, For it descends too soon for woken sight to see A shade of any gladness in its dew's first blisters: All my dreams of daylight are in darkling whispers Of…

Noir in cadence

11721172 views1010 comments88 favs

...hup hup hup...

Rite-Aid

11721172 views22 comments00 favs

It was the most prestigious cashier position in the entire state!

Rope & Bone

11721172 views22 comments00 favs

Speaking in tongues untranslatable, they move in experimental spacesuits, uneasy in the other's gravity. (To say nothing of the difficulty of dancing.)

Love of a Lifetime

11711171 views00 comments00 favs

Love is easy when all is going well, but it is one of life’s profound, humbling lessons that few people love you enough to wipe your butt.

Pretend Friend

11711171 views55 comments11 fav

no rule says an imaginary friend has to be a good one