Most read stories

Spin

13051305 views00 comments00 favs

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

Five Million Yen: Chapter 70

13051305 views22 comments11 fav

Ben left the airport and headed toward downtown Nice, his stomach was in a knot.

Stalk

13051305 views00 comments00 favs

A spot in space observes all this, with its eyes arching over on their stalks. The observation point dangles one eye above the other, turning the roundness of them suddenly.

Diana and the White-Haired Moon Goddess

13051305 views22 comments11 fav

I’ll bet You got bit by Snake Charmer Boy And your world fell out from under you

The Call

13051305 views00 comments00 favs

I strolled mindlessly along the concrete pavement, the cool breeze carrying the characteristic scent of the night. I stared at the path ahead, but not really looking. My legs continued their automated operations. I didn't know where I was going, but that was all right - I…

Beowulf in Hell (in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse)

13051305 views00 comments00 favs

They strung him up,…

An Interview With Pere Ubu

13051305 views11 comment11 fav

Performed October 21-22, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Mass. Kathy-Ann Hart, the Hostess; Ryan Wenke, Ubu; Tyler Catanella, Alfred Jarry; the author--technician.

Thanksgiving Carnage

13051305 views33 comments33 favs

The game is set, thirty pound gobbler at the center; brined, browned, and buttered to perfection. The players take their places around the table: Reagan’s_Disciple and BraBurner38 sit at the head seats, eyeballing each other over a fizzing bottle of dom

Morning Night (1)

13051305 views00 comments00 favs

Sunday Night She wasn't hungry, hadn't eaten for days, wouldn't even touch the food I took time off my fuckin' schedule to bring her myself. I walked through puddles of dirt and dog shit, I did. By the time she opened the door after four knocks, I was drenched,…

April

13041304 views33 comments33 favs

Well, hello hunger: what a sweet surprise.

Fateful Day

13041304 views00 comments00 favs

Erica was practically pushed into the dressing room, three dresses in each arm and a tag saying "6 items. Attach tag to doorknob and bring all items and this tag to attendant when finished" in her mouth cause she had nowhere else to put it.

5th and Washington

13041304 views00 comments00 favs

“This horrible street. I hate this neighborhood,” she cursed.

Who Was This Guy

13041304 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…

Breath

13041304 views00 comments00 favs

Michael lay on his back and counted his breaths, measuring their depth of inhalation and release.

Biscuits and Gravy

13041304 views33 comments22 favs

Lips touch briefly at first

Self Portrait Without Colors

13041304 views1414 comments66 favs

I am the ritual/ banalities of days numbered,/ numberless, and numb.

Antarctica

13041304 views11 comment11 fav

I don't have the feelings of self-worth a young woman should have, Monica Lewinsky tells the nation. She seems to understand there will always be some amount of ice beneath her.

The Dialogue

13041304 views44 comments22 favs

"Aren't you free to say whatever you please?"

Cold, Cold Night

13041304 views77 comments55 favs

I thought I heard Follow your heart On the cold, cold Night of the soul I thought I heard Follow your heart, follow your heart On this coldest night Of the soul Leaves on fire, leaves on fire They told me look Into the flames To

With Nothing Here But Me I Begin

13041304 views88 comments77 favs

to unwind looking for the answer.I confess I wasn't so discreetas life demanded, laughing like anowhere poet. Nothing relieved thegod awful boredom. Many times Iconfess I hadn't really takenthe vitamins, crying like a courtjester thrown into a dungeon onmarket day, and felt…

Always nervous

13041304 views66 comments00 favs

and still every time I walked up there - so it can't be the cycling - I was nervous I would do it wrong

Jeremy's Crane

13041304 views00 comments00 favs

I saw magic for the first time when I was eight, on the day Jeremy Chendo showed me that paper cranes can fly.

Portrait Of Junky Summer

13041304 views11 comment22 favs

Old scars at night burn hot and bright Deep in her heart in Texas She rides around with the ragtop down Driving her brand new Lexus

Easter

13041304 views11 comment11 fav

Easter the emerald parlor remembered, come yourself to convince me now impose yourself firm to the maroon furrow that is my heart. Interloper, make your mayhem here, where I have been miserable -…

The Bad Bed, 2011

13041304 views44 comments22 favs

Im in bed. Bed. I look at the word bed written on the screen. Bed. It looks like bad but not quite. Bed-Bad. Bad-Bed. I have a bad bed. Lets say my bed is bad. It is a bed to the extent that it is bad. It is not good, it is bad. It is a bad bed.

Red Hair

13031303 views00 comments00 favs

She was the middle child, tall and lank, red haired and strong, in a girl kind of way. A girl forced to cope with something tough and objectionable. She was the care giver to her younger brother, making sure he got out of bed and ready for school. She did

deja not

13031303 views1515 comments88 favs

I haven't felt my soul leave my body

Hela Hey Aloha

13031303 views44 comments44 favs

“Everyone you see is half asleep. And you're on your own, you're in the street.” -John Lennon What we can muster now is a few choice words of humor, but unfortunately that won't show them anything that they haven't seen…

Screen Saver

13031303 views00 comments00 favs

Carl was tight with stress, he is the lead architect and developer on a new condo in the newly gentrified section, DUM-AS, (which stands for Direct U-turn from Manhattan-Almost Scary.) Carl’s condo is one of a pair of new condo’s erected at the same time

Child's Play

13031303 views33 comments00 favs

Walking east, he pauses, Picks a cassava, Cleaves the melon in two; He tears juicy chunks Of flesh to cleanse the blade.