Most read stories

Convoluted Title

10661066 views44 comments11 fav

She came to him with her arms open and a smile on her face; the kind of smile that assured him everything would be fine. He longed for that smile for months now; seeing her wearing that smile that he…

Lvoe

10661066 views44 comments00 favs

like a hundred cracks of thunder / or my brain seizing up, going all floppy on me ...

Elk Hunters

10661066 views33 comments33 favs

"Damn! All I've got is a hundred dollar bill."

Digging In The Darkness

10661066 views11 comment22 favs

I dig with no light to guide the aim of my shovel but the stars peeking through the trees which are fuller now then when you went away.

Attraction and the Forge of God

10661066 views33 comments33 favs

Being burned with a branding iron really hurts. Everyone must have voted for the Forge because next thing I knew there was only God on TV

Five Million Yen: Chapter 47

10661066 views77 comments00 favs

Who better to know the wiles of the fox than the vixen herself?

Five Million Yen: Chapter 69

10661066 views00 comments00 favs

The Gringovitch family was gathered in the lobby of the hotel. The boys sat on the floor using their packs as back supports. Francesca Gringovitch sat on a chair with the remaining luggage in front of her.

Two Snapshots of A Drowning Girl

10661066 views00 comments00 favs

One fine afternoon a few months after her husband's death, Susan awoke in the porcelain tub of her gigantic, empty house with: two champagne bottles, one only half-empty; a Xanax bottle, completely empty; and a loaded gun, which was most startling

five shards of the ancient and the antique

10661066 views88 comments66 favs

“Outis of Utopia” my found name! / I'll inscribe it soon as the tide goes out.

War Story : Alternate Duty

10651065 views11 comment00 favs

They say that air traffic control is stressful work and I guess it is for some people. It did require a lot of concentration but that never bothered me much. I could keep the position, bearing and altitude of a couple of dozen aircraft in my head without

Crash Car Star

10651065 views00 comments00 favs

here we go.

Thanksgiving, 2018

10651065 views1717 comments99 favs

The cornbread for dressing cools./ The cranberries boil with one cup each/ of sugar and water. The aromas are nice

October is the month when your dog dies

10651065 views1616 comments1515 favs

.

Trouble behind, trouble ahead, and you know that notion's stole from the Dead

10651065 views1414 comments88 favs

...she shouted, “Benny!” and slowed down as a hand-lettered signboard proclaiming zukeeny appals cidar came into view

Killing Joy

10651065 views22 comments11 fav

In certain sense most fractured in each part, the whole Resolves itself more central, but I sense no calm In the cyclone's eye, the forest of the soul, Where plants this eidolon of poisoned charm. This is the secret of the hurricanes, reaping Out from…

Shenanigans 2 - Anticipation

10651065 views22 comments00 favs

One Private View, four couples, not all of whom are adulterous.

We shall wait and see

10651065 views44 comments44 favs

Then there is Ethelbert's husband whom Ethelbert hasn't met yet, and who has literally weighed in, as if fed up and tired of waiting for a long, in full length, needless, wake up story. That is when Ethelbert asks, "Amy who?" related to a different group

Job Interview

10651065 views33 comments11 fav

Coming down the stairs, you didn’t see me at all. I watched you lumbering closely. I wondered what they’d done to you to make you move this way.

The Case of the Incinerated Spinster

10651065 views44 comments44 favs

There by the opposite doorway opening onto the thinly carpeted kitchen lay—well, what seemed to be all that was left of Miriam Flagellporte . . .

Getting over the man in the moon

10651065 views1111 comments99 favs

First have a good window seat

Box Set

10651065 views44 comments33 favs

Isn’t it funny how a mosaic of neurons in our heads receives sensations from the outer world and grows into postulates and letters?

Modes of Motion

10651065 views22 comments00 favs

I saw an ocean drained and filled / at the flats of Saemangeum.

Endless

10651065 views11 comment11 fav

My grief is made up of Demons fighting to Claw their way first Out of my eyes

Pops

10651065 views55 comments44 favs

My father is the kind of man to shout at you / just because you took the wrong road / at least the road that he’s not used to...

Fire Alarm

10651065 views99 comments88 favs

You snore and the house is safe again.

gravelortian part 4

10651065 views33 comments22 favs

rinse plate cup glass spoon bowl soapy water

wrong way home

10651065 views44 comments33 favs

this little piggy

Dancing

10651065 views00 comments00 favs

The lights are dimAnd love's the mood tonight.Enveloped by DarknessPierced by rays of light;That black dressto meis pure delight.Dancing together,Arm in arm,arm over shoulder;I promiseI won't get any bolder.Eyes meet eyesYour lips against mine.My heart is pounding,Sweet…

Never Catch Me Alive

10651065 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.

What'd You Do This Weekend?

10641064 views11 comment11 fav

Sometimes your Monday morning answer to the inevitable questions don't have to be so mundane and repetitive. And sometimes they do. No one gives a shit anyway.