Most read stories

Sugarexplosion

13131313 views33 comments11 fav

At school, Joe knew the answers to the questions. He used to jump up onto his desk and wave his arm before Mrs. Gestapo told him he would have to stop or he would go to the principal’s office, where the other kids said that the principal made you pull d

Wellington Crescent/Rubber Soul/50/50

13131313 views00 comments00 favs

They are kind of cool though I’ll admit…pretty types with perfect angles and poise and judicial daddies and shade tree homes, holding their books preciously against their tight bodies as if they’re into academics or something.

Women of God

13131313 views22 comments22 favs

I keep the book when the lessons are done, go through the pages Momma skipped over...

Words

13131313 views77 comments77 favs

often visit me in my room, so quietly, so suddenly, buzzing my head with wonderful, possible sentences. Sometimes I find they've been there radiating all along, children ready to burst out in a sneaky fit of laughter if I move just slightly…

Wilderness

13131313 views44 comments11 fav

We call this game the end of the world...

Gilbert B Fumbleberry

13131313 views00 comments00 favs

“You know, Miss Viv, I love looking at the sun when it’s almost gone. It kinda looks like an orange and apple squished together. Those are the colors. And the puffy clouds under it look like a bed. It’s going to sleep."

During My Daily Commute

13131313 views44 comments44 favs

in moving cars i am small; in moving cars i am invisible.

Drifting

13131313 views1212 comments66 favs

it's all a bit like the quiet steam drifting to nowhere off my microwaved hot coffee in the sunflower mug

I'm Still Here

13131313 views22 comments00 favs

During the night and in the fog of halfsleep Ben shifted and felt the weight of Miranda gone from him, the bed empty. In the quiet of the house he thought he heard a footstep and the soft shutting of a door, and as his eyes searched the dark he…

The Skill in Gravity

13131313 views44 comments33 favs

the ones that have seen the other seasons, let them set up the track

Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades

13131313 views55 comments00 favs

Bitter the sun when it is in Hades High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down but the nitre keeps burning So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin Foreheads exhibit thought though the eyes are crossed and at night, butterflies i

Carmen Rental

13131313 views44 comments44 favs

But in 1991 Carmen developed a heroin habit and was forced to sell her powder blue, convertible Mercedes 500SL...

Finite

13121312 views33 comments11 fav

This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.

leyh (they say)

13121312 views33 comments22 favs

and then he began to sing, along with the ghostly villagers

More from The Chronicles of His Demise

13121312 views1515 comments99 favs

Dread and drudgery sour each day

I Don't Know How the Nights Can Be So Long When Life Is So Short

13121312 views44 comments44 favs

I will always remember that picture of you in your bright blue summer dress, with your arms spread out against a wooden fence in Central Park.

A Winter Gift

13121312 views22 comments00 favs

As we follow the trail and things snap beneath our feet, I tell myself that the snapped things take pleasure, find purpose even, in the sounds they make with my soles.

What It Took To Be God

13121312 views55 comments33 favs

They borrowed birds from the trees And forced me to sing along with them You could say they made my heart burn But we all know some of that was fake It was a direct route From sleep walking To sleep shopping To this I guess I lived a

Ten Books That Have Stuck with Me Off the Top of My Head as I Make Them Up, #1

13121312 views22 comments22 favs

“Miss Brown had spent the morning (was it just this morning? Or another?) purchasing parsnips and leafy green vegetables from the local grocers, when she was overcome by a wave of nausea. The world went black and she awoke in a windowless, doorless room.

writing in loops

13121312 views00 comments00 favs

Antique pens better allow an old soul to express what needs expressing.

Dixon Ticonderoga - 2 5/10 medium

13121312 views00 comments00 favs

gotta love a pencil

The First of Many to Fade into the Now We Go Marching Down the Lane for Love Side Street

13121312 views22 comments22 favs

for Tracy ThornYou don't need a song about fixed stars, you needa reason to be glad stars are here. Themoon's always been around, but not always like the friend you want,until now. Don't throw it all away becauseyou are too sad to care. You've come into your own. Allthings…

when you're not here, your feeling is

13121312 views11 comment11 fav

never have i wanted/ to stay in one place long,/ flight inspired to escape/ existential ennui--

Micromanaged Truth

13121312 views22 comments22 favs

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

Love and other entreaties

13121312 views22 comments00 favs

it’s okay, you can come inside me

Bands, Again?

13121312 views44 comments11 fav

Monkey Business Low Ceiling Wagging Tongues Guest Sweet Murphy’s Law Kinda Hot Stopit! Freedom Ring Lumpy Oatmeal Better Not Butter Up Grumpy Umpire

Don't Forgive Me

13111311 views77 comments55 favs

of anything if that's the way you feel your love must go down, off its last nut before the big victimizing crash of the end of days and flowers. But watch out for thosethorn bushes that grow from forgotten holes in the ground.…

Beggars Banquet

13111311 views11 comment00 favs

When I was a boy and just out of seminary school, I went to a Doors concert and heard Jim Morrison sing his song ‘Soft Parade’ – it changed my life.

Millard Fillmore, Dolphin Flayer

13111311 views00 comments00 favs

Last week I heard that there is a new horror movie out about Abe Lincoln, with the plot of the film involving the tallest of presidents hunting down vampire bats with his axe while suspending habeas corpus, writing lame speeches about the freedom of man, restoring the…

Edward Ogle the Andy

13111311 views44 comments22 favs

Concrete coffeecake drumbeat gyrate Andy Rooney ran a meter.