Most read stories

To The Guy Who Sat Next To Me On The Flight Home From Amsterdam

13461346 views33 comments00 favs

I guess you felt more comfortable holding your Moby Dick

Who Was This Guy

13461346 views55 comments55 favs

Luke and Diane sat at a round white table looking around the room. There were clusters of people forming an archipelago of cordial exchange and small talk. All but a few were strangers, friends and family of his sister-in-law Mary, now a widow, though the word sounded…

My Nashville Song

13461346 views66 comments22 favs

I smell ham and biscuits I ain't eatin' Triscuits No more No more, no more Gonna get back on my Harley With my mutt named Bisquick Charlie I just ain't eatin’ Triscuits No more, no more And I heard you know the score Yeah, I know you

Saved (Seven-Fingered Jesus)

13461346 views11 comment00 favs

Believe me, I would run if I could, but there seems to be a low haze of molasses clinging to my ankles.

THE TIDE OF LIFE

13461346 views66 comments44 favs

It was an autumn day, late in the afternoon, a Tuesday, when the last murderer died. There was no official announcement. Indeed, she and her crime had been forgotten. Pancreatitis, her cause of death. Quite treatable, the cancer. Nothing could be done for the gene that…

Dreamless

13461346 views66 comments33 favs

We call it the alley of the shadows, the low sunless concavity of earth between the stalks, the acrid scent of the ripened arrow-points.

GENE WILDER

13461346 views44 comments33 favs

I saw you hold her as if you were copy writing a ball of yarn

Granny Medicine

13461346 views99 comments77 favs

Antibiotic ointment didn't help. Maybe Granny medicine would.

Rediscovered

13461346 views11 comment11 fav

Remain in repose, a little longer.

Now I'm not a virgin anymore

13461346 views33 comments00 favs

On my second trip home from the University of Illinois down state in Urbana, it was during our break between semesters, I remember it was a particularly freezing cold and miserable January (1963.) I had a date with Lynda.

Fibers(next:our world without ice caps/yipes!)

13461346 views1010 comments55 favs

The light they love to hate so much is always pulsating within each life; the unbelievable color sword of what happens next when any two people find each other in their hearts and all pretense is somehow gone, for at…

we engendered song

13461346 views22 comments11 fav

Ever the chance we were given, with luck always, fate. At least we engendered the song and the drink. Having sailed from the goddess of sensual love, having the best throw that beauty allowed, now you can call it will, though some will call it hate.

Whataboutery

13461346 views00 comments00 favs

A scene.

Love and other entreaties

13461346 views22 comments00 favs

it’s okay, you can come inside me

Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades

13461346 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

Not Even

13451345 views22 comments00 favs

That’s not just a trinket on her finger, that’s a rock, a fortress, a castle. No one can scale those walls except Joe Sixpack, slumped beside her at the airport. They’re not a match. I give it 5 years, max. Not even. Joe

A Rave for "How the Sixties Ended"

13451345 views44 comments00 favs

"At a bare minimum it deserves to be a major cult hit."

Sure Thing

13451345 views1212 comments77 favs

If you ask me I'm thinking I'm just blowing off some steam, some hot air that doesn't add up to the old cliche of a hill of beans. A hill of fucking beans.

Angels and Inspiration

13451345 views00 comments00 favs

It was then an angel was sent to provide assistance and guidance. After the first time, with the radio show, the woman could almost feel her presence. When she did not know what to do, or needed help or to encourage others, when her own will and words wer

Epic struggle between right and wrong...

13451345 views00 comments00 favs

The day was yesterday, November 11, 2010. I was home from work, and I pulled my car into the driveway. I stopped short of the garage to get out of the car and get the daily mail. Bills and unwanted coupons for places I didn't go and for items I don't…

On the Deeper Slants of the Universe

13451345 views1515 comments1313 favs

Everything makes sense.

Ai Kitano

13451345 views11 comment00 favs

Sick of sight, Ai Kitano constructed glasses by which the wearer was rendered totally blind.

Warm Sand And Black Heaven

13451345 views00 comments00 favs

He met her at midnight just off the plane and they sized each other with silent growing awareness that no matter what might transpire in distant tomorrows, each served here now as passports to magic and lands far away. On the…

4:09 and American Music

13451345 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…

Words

13451345 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…

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.6 - c.2

13451345 views00 comments00 favs

Watching the surroundings, the school proceeded on with no threat in sight. The Circle of Four entered inside Azure’s classroom where she sat next to a window.

Preacher Alphonse Jicklo

13441344 views55 comments11 fav

Samson was also somewhat in hopes that his son Jason would become engaged in this minor capitalist enterprise and 'turned around' in his life.

I Don't Know Why People Still Read These Things

13441344 views55 comments33 favs

POETRY IS DEGENERACY / IS A DISGUSTING HABIT

faking an orgasm

13441344 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

leyh (they say)

13441344 views33 comments22 favs

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