Most read stories

Spin

11691169 views00 comments00 favs

...I made the mistake, thinking the point of a maze was to go in one side and out the other.

Second Collage

11691169 views44 comments11 fav

B developed a thick emulsion that he paints onto the pieces of meat on which he prints photographs.

Mean

11691169 views00 comments00 favs

I was in a bar waiting for a friend when two ugly women sat next beside me. When our eyes met, they gave me a smile. I smiled back out of courtesy. I wasn't in the mood to have a conversation not because they're unattractive, but my friend was horribly…

Five Million Yen: Chapter 64

11691169 views22 comments11 fav

Mulvihill suspected, but could not prove, that the connection to all three murders and the three men was a painting

ORPHANS

11691169 views1515 comments77 favs

They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them

My Hero

11691169 views00 comments00 favs

Anyway, without Mr. Little, my life would have been much more difficult after my father was arrested. It was difficult enough as it was. Mr. Little was my personal hero at a time in my life when I had very few people that I could look up to. The funny

Bird Words

11691169 views33 comments22 favs

a thinking man's bird high above coated with scent of life

Our Date Was Better In Reverse

11691169 views00 comments11 fav

I felt my words reach out and try to grab him by the heart. They missed.

Left On The Scrap Heap

11691169 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.

Old Beat-Up Trunk (containing a History of Forgotten Paintings)

11691169 views99 comments66 favs

The world can still be viewed as a honey drop of sparkling rain, but not all washed up tears can be revealed as such. The stories swirling inside are constantly shifting their own gears, searching for the lost highway, and sometimes…

Wolf - Variation 5

11691169 views22 comments22 favs

his eyes see blood as circumstance.

Blank Checks

11691169 views88 comments88 favs

Then he said something that really made sense, said he kept a blank check in his back pocket...

Testament/ National Poetry Month, 2013/ 25 Poems

11691169 views88 comments55 favs

Small stones/ skipped across/ still water ripple

Never Catch Me Alive

11691169 views00 comments00 favs

We walk with our heads down, maybe 15 of us, moving under a sun that has grown to encompass everything. Everything is in hues of orange and red like a bloody eyeball on fire.

Together in Tuscany

11681168 views33 comments33 favs

Here comes the bus. It’s going to Tuscany and is full of pronouns: he, she, me, you, it, them, us, we, and you again.

The Band Name Is The Concert

11681168 views00 comments00 favs

We now bring to the stage ....

We Are Not Just A Bit of Irrelevant Pollution

11681168 views44 comments22 favs

"It's hard to make a man understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding it."--Upton Sinclair I understand what Zappa was saying,about broken hearts and assholes, but, well, reallywhat if yours is already broken and already…

Adaptation

11681168 views55 comments44 favs

At night, we’d sleep in our usual spots on the edge of the bed - Becca on the left, me on the right with Hanna in the middle as before the accident.

At the Balcony

11681168 views11 comment22 favs

I was setting up a mattress and a lamp in the balcony of my house because a boy, G., told me he was coming to fuck me.

Disappear Everywhere

11681168 views22 comments22 favs

heroes and monsters

Burying the Tramp

11681168 views00 comments00 favs

Heaven and hell. Hadley believed in neither. One way or another you’re a meal ticket for someone, best to be the one spending than the one being spent. The worms and insects are getting their meal ticket now, that’s for sure.

Hype and Melancholy

11681168 views99 comments66 favs

Sonia banks on hidden things in the minds of other people, whereas I bank on what I know.

Take Two Llamas and Call Me in the Morning

11681168 views44 comments22 favs

A Massachusetts nursing home that doesn’t believe in antipsychotic drugs uses a llama named Travis to calm patients.

Peyote Buttons

11671167 views11 comment11 fav

In the sides of mountains the rivers rush through and who would stop them as they gain a hold on the world? For silences they keep just then, as if from a larger wisdom and different clock. Pink moons and funny coins with the heads of lions and lambs, and the quarter…

Late Bloomer

11671167 views11 comment00 favs

It was ridiculous. We were only in 3rd grade. How can anyone know at that age, only eight, that Judy F. was the girl he was meant to be with for the rest of their lives? But that was how Stephen O. behaved. As if they both already knew this, and they

You Knew It

11671167 views55 comments55 favs

was only a small enough matter of time before you started to show up as new words like soft pink clues dropped inside tiny fingernail teacups to find their innermost meaning, then wishes, floating up near the top like…

Tincture Shunt Lunch Box

11671167 views33 comments00 favs

Most people don't understand what it's like being a pop idol. I am not most people. I am Tincture Shunt, and here I present you with my trajectory to stardom, in case you want to copy it for your own personal use. Unfortunately (for…

In and Out

11671167 views22 comments00 favs

Emma held her arm up to John’s eyes. He looked, nodded. “My burns are on the inside,” he told her. “I’ll never show you.”

Manic Episode

11671167 views88 comments99 favs

The manic,/ looking on, finds and polishes// the sharp green shard and bottle cap

Unintentional Hermits/ Animal Cities- The General Woman

11671167 views11 comment11 fav

She lived a good life she told herself. She lived a good life because she demanded little- little materialistic comforts that is- at least this is what she thought- and what she demanded anyway was simple, aesthetic; sophisticated and perhaps even neat. Yes she was a neat…