Most read stories

Long Night, Hard Night

12621262 views11 comment11 fav

It had been a long night, a hard night. The sky had been filled with blackened clouds, patters of wind snapping and whipping like a pirate's flag hung at full mast. Rain beat…

She Looked In the Mirror And Saw Something Different

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

Even raw as she looked coming out of the jail, the woman left echoes.

jewels

12611261 views1919 comments99 favs

it is said to make your manliness last forever

Hooker

12611261 views66 comments33 favs

I returned to Minnesota from Montreal a week ago to realize that my sweetheart in Manhattan had hired a Ukrainian escort.

The Happiest Place

12611261 views22 comments00 favs

I normally don't photograph well, but today – well, today's different.

Killing Joy

12611261 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…

the oracle withers, because it is so late

12611261 views44 comments00 favs

I remember some of the tight-fitting garments you wore, your looks seeping through them. The light blonde hairs at your neck and at your middle. Were we really expected to keep our hands off each other? It is foolish to think so. I know what I was think

Our Enormous Fat Man

12611261 views88 comments88 favs

Pity would have been appropriate. Yet, townsfolk whispered behind his back. Shouldn't he do something about it. So lazy. A gluttonous swine. Hadn't his mother kept him too long at tit, breastfeeding ‘til four? Look. Look at him now. A fat man. Our enormou

Upon a Time

12611261 views99 comments44 favs

then all crawl out from the wreckage to begin a dance lasts all night so by morning we'll be tired surprised we're still upright

Split Decisions

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

Many colored eyes move slow between the mirror and my heart, begging questions. I offer no explanation. None suffice to breed either my content or theirs.

In and Out

12611261 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.”

Chresmographion

12611261 views66 comments33 favs

Meeting the past an inevitable outcome (this inside a future fortune cookie). Shame pierces her like a sudden migraine.

The United Church of Cigarettes

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

Most keep their eyes closed. Some look up at the cloud covering the kneeling ecclesiastical trash perched high. Others look around, overly warm.

Digging In The Darkness

12611261 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.

The Fool on the Hill

12611261 views11 comment22 favs

It is wonderful to talk to Mick Jagger in his hotel room. He is absolutely charming, and the women filling the room seem as natural as the sound of rain or the play of sunlight.

Fate

12611261 views99 comments88 favs

decline the prof­fered hand

9 January

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

Side morning lightthrough hydrangea crab, reachand shine off patio ice

Dipshits.

12611261 views22 comments11 fav

[WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS PROLONGED SEX SCENES OF AN EXTREMELY EXPLICIT NATURE AND SCENES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, WHICH SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND SHOCKING AND DISTURBING.]

Lower-order Mammals

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

they'd turned into humans overnight

It is I, Hamlet, King of the Crabs

12611261 views33 comments22 favs

Ronnie comes home carrying two sacks of groceries, one including a four-pack of Virgil's root beer. This is heavy stuff. It amazes me she is able to carry these items up our steep hill, nearly a mile in distance. I watch the news on our French cable station while she…

Stableford

12611261 views00 comments00 favs

Mike Summer's moustache was perfect. Hard bristle and so symmetrical it looked cut to the angles of a military imperative. He was pretty proud of it, thought the team of beaters, who watched him as he sat on the boot ledge of his sage green Mercedes 123 T, combing…

The Threat of Distance

12611261 views33 comments33 favs

The lone young man walking in the distance,/receding silently,

The Band Name Is The Concert

12601260 views00 comments00 favs

We now bring to the stage ....

Cakewalk

12601260 views00 comments00 favs

She could estimate herself around 30, though this was debatable since she had stopped counting years ago. She looked like a person who would be very pretty if she wore make-up, but she didn’t and therefore wasn’t.

My Great Sensitivity

12601260 views99 comments66 favs

I'm mucked now for sure. No one's going to discover my difficult poems in a locked away desk drawer somewhere after the dying fact. I remember how it feels to be knocked out by someone standing next to me in a simple white dress. This…

Mesmerized

12601260 views00 comments00 favs

Those eyes – they held a lost blue sadness that enveloped her and stopped her mid-movement.

Chu Berry, Tenor Wrapped in Swaddling

12601260 views11 comment11 fav

They heard Chu’s voice, he was lying ten feet away, his skull opened up. “Find my change,” was all he was saying. “I left my change around, look for it."

I Should’ve

12601260 views11 comment00 favs

I should've traced my steps. I'm lost in a sea of hyperlinks.

Biscuits and Gravy

12601260 views33 comments22 favs

Lips touch briefly at first

The First Several Chapters of His Memoirs

12601260 views55 comments33 favs

He went for long, quiet walks. These seemed to quell the seething rages swirling about him as he exhumed and reconstructed the truth of himself.